This paper presents a set of algorithms for distinguishing personal names with multiple real referents in text, based on little or no supervision. The approach utilizes an unsupervised clustering technique over a rich feature space of biographic facts, which are automatically extracted via a language-independent bootstrapping process. The induced clustering of named entities are then partitioned and linked to their real referents via the automatically extracted biographic data. Performance is evaluated based on both a test set of handlabeled multi-referent personal names and via automatically generated pseudonames.
Mann and Yarowsky REF utilize an unsupervised clustering technique over a feature space for coreference.
Unsupervised Personal Name Disambiguation
Conference On Computational Natural Language Learning CoNLL
Computer Science