Patent ID: 7953724
Filing Date: 2011-05-31
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method comprising: a. selecting a set of electronic information associated with a set of publications, each publication in the set of publications comprising at least one cited reference and having at least one authorship; b. disambiguating at least part of the set of electronic information by using a set of at least two cited references associated with a set of at least two publications from the set of publications to determine an authorship similarity, disambiguating including scoring authorship similarity; wherein the disambiguating step includes arriving at a scored authorship similarity attribute; c. linking authorships based on the determined authorship similarity and clustering two or more linked authorships to form a first cluster and forming a first author entity associated with the first cluster; d. matching the first author entity with a first actual author, the first cluster of authorships being attributable to the first actual author, and repeating the clustering step to form a plurality of clusters respectively associated with a plurality of unique author entities; and e. incorporating into an authority database of authors the plurality of unique author entities each associated with a unique actual author and a cluster.