Poster

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Paper Title:
Mining for Personal Name Aliases on the Web

Authors:

• Danushka Bollegala(The University of Tokyo)
• Taiki Honma(The University of Tokyo)
• Yutaka Matsuo(The University of Tokyo)
• Mitsuru Ishizuka(The University of Tokyo)

Abstract:
We propose a novel approach to find aliases of a given name from the web. We exploit a set of known names and their aliases as training data and extract lexical patterns that convey information related to aliases of names from text snippets returned by a web search engine. The patterns are then used to find candidate aliases of a given name. We use anchor texts and hyperlinks to design a word co-occurrence model and define numerous ranking scores to evaluate the association between a name and its candidate aliases. The proposed method outperforms numerous baselines and previous work on alias extraction on a dataset of personal names, achieving a statistically significant mean reciprocal rank of 0.6718. Moreover, the aliases extracted using the proposed method improve recall by 20% in a relation-detection task.

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