DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14043791.v1
title: Dataset: Ethnicity-Based Name Partitioning for Author Name Disambiguation Using Supervised Machine Learning

description: This dataset contains data files for a research paper, "Ethnicity-Based Name Partitioning for Author Name Disambiguation Using Supervised Machine Learning," published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.<br>Four zipped files are uploaded.<br>Each zipped file contains five data files: signatures_train.txt, signatures_test.txt, records.txt, clusters_train.txt, and clusters_test.txt.<br>1. 'Signatures' files contain lists of name instances. Each name instance (a row) is associated with information as follows. - 1st column: instance id (numeric): unique id assigned to a name instance - 2nd column: paper id (numeric): unique id assigned to a paper in which the name instance appears as an author name - 3rd column: byline position (numeric): integer indicating the position of the name instance in the authorship byline of the paper - 4th column: author name (string): name string formatted as surname, comma, and forename(s) - 5th column: ethnic name group (string): name ethnicity assigned by Ethnea to the name instance - 6th column: affiliation (string): affiliation associated with the name instance, if available in the original data - 7th column: block (string): simplified name string of the name instance to indicate its block membership (surname and first forename initial) - 8th column: author id (string): unique author id (i.e., author label) assigned by the creators of the original data<br>2. 'Records' files contain lists of papers. Each paper is associated with information as follows. -1st column: paper id (numeric): unique paper id; this is the unique paper id (2nd column) in Signatures files -2nd column: year (numeric): year of publication * Some papers may have wrong publication years due to incorrect indexing or delayed updates in original data -3rd column: venue (string): name of journal or conference in which the paper is published * Venue names can be in full string or in a shortened format according to the formats in original data -4th column: authors (string; separated by vertical bar): list of author names that appear in the paper's byline * Author names are formatted into surname, comma, and forename(s) -5th column: title words (string; separated by space): words in a title of the paper. * Note that common words are stop-listed and each remaining word is stemmed using Porter's stemmer.<br>3. 'Clusters' files contain lists of clusters. Each cluster is associated with information as follows. -1st column: cluster id (numeric): unique id of a cluster -2nd column: list of name instance ids (Signatures - 1st column) that belong to the same unique author id (Signatures - 8th column). <br>Signatures and Clusters files consist of two subsets - train and test files - of original labeled data which are randomly split into 50%-50% by the authors of this study.<br>Original labeled data for AMiner.zip, KISTI.zip, and GESIS.zip came from the studies cited below.<br>If you use one of the uploaded data files, please cite them accordingly.<br>[AMiner.zip]<br>Tang, J., Fong, A. C. M., Wang, B., & Zhang, J. (2012). A Unified Probabilistic Framework for Name Disambiguation in Digital Library. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 24(6), 975-987. doi:10.1109/Tkde.2011.13<br><br>Wang, X., Tang, J., Cheng, H., & Yu, P. S. (2011). ADANA: Active Name Disambiguation. Paper presented at the 2011 IEEE 11th International Conference on Data Mining.<br><br>[KISTI.zip]<br>Kang, I. S., Kim, P., Lee, S., Jung, H., & You, B. J. (2011). Construction of a Large-Scale Test Set for Author Disambiguation. Information Processing & Management, 47(3), 452-465. doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2010.10.001<br><br>Note that the original KISTI data contain errors and duplicates. This study reuses the revised version of KISTI reported in a study below.<br>Kim, J. (2018). Evaluating author name disambiguation for digital libraries: A case of DBLP. Scientometrics, 116(3), 1867-1886. doi:10.1007/s11192-018-2824-5<br><br>[GESIS.zip]<br>Momeni, F., & Mayr, P. (2016). Evaluating Co-authorship Networks in Author Name Disambiguation for Common Names. Paper presented at the 20th international Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2016), Hannover, Germany.<br><br>Note that this study reuses the 'Evaluation Set' among the original GESIS data which was added titles by a study below.<br>Kim, J., & Kim, J. (2020). Effect of forename string on author name disambiguation. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 71(7), 839-855. doi:10.1002/asi.24298<br><br>[UM-IRIS.zip]<br>This labeled dataset was created for this study. For description about the labeling method, please see 'Method' in the paper below.<br>Kim, J., Kim, J., & Owen-Smith, J. (In print). Ethnicity-based name partitioning for author name disambiguation using supervised machine learning. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. doi:10.1002/asi.24459<br>.For details on the labeling method and limitations, see the paper below.<br>Kim, J., & Owen-Smith, J. (2021). ORCID-linked labeled data for evaluating author name disambiguation at scale. Scientometrics. doi:10.1007/s11192-020-03826-6<br><br><br><br>