Automatic Methods for Disambiguating Author Names in Bibliographic Data Repositories

Name ambiguity in the context of bibliographic citation records is a hard problem that affects the quality of services and content in digital libraries and similar systems. This problem occurs when an author publishes works under dis-tinct names or distinct authors publish works under similar names. The challenges of dealing with author name ambigu-ity have led to a myriad of name disambiguation methods. In this tutorial, we characterize such methods by means of a proposed taxonomy, present an overview of some of the most representative ones and discuss open challenges