Tobias greitemeyer biography of rory

Normalization: ACM uses normalization algorithms to weigh several types of evidence for merging and splitting names.
These include:

• co-authors: if we have two names and cannot disambiguate them based on name alone, then we see if they have a co-author in common.

  Tobias greitemeyer biography of rory

• Tobias greitemeyer biography of rory anderson
• Tobias greitemeyer biography of rory van
• Tobias greitemeyer biography of rory davis
• Tobias greitemeyer biography of rory mcilroy

If so, this weighs towards the two names being the same person.

• affiliations: names in common with same affiliation weighs toward the two names being the same person.
• publication title: names in common whose works are published in same journal weighs toward the two names being the same person.

• keywords: names in common whose works address the same subject matter as determined from title and keywords, weigh toward being the same person.

  Tobias greitemeyer biography of rory anderson

The more conservative the merging algorithms, the more bits of evidence are required before a merge is made, resulting in greater precision but lower recall of works for a given Author Profile. Many bibliographic records have only author initials.

Many names lack affiliati