On 21 Jul 2010, at 09:42, Daniel Kinzler wrote: >> Kang+Hsu+Krajbich+2009+the+wick+in
This seems best to me of what's proposed so far. > Both seem good, though i would suggest to form a convention to ignore any > leading "the" and "a", to a more distinctive 3 word suffix. While that's a good idea, then we'd have to know all "indistinctive" words in all languages. (Die, Der, La, L', ...) There are still going to be duplicates, alas... > >> Of course, it does not have to be _exactly_ three authors, nor three >> words from the title, and it does not solve the John Smith (or Zheng >> Wang) problem. > > It also doesn't solve issues with transliteration: Merik Möller may become > "Moeller" or "Moller", Jakob Voß may become "Voss" or "Vosz" or even "VoB", > etc. In case of chinese names, it's often not easy to decide which part is the > last name. > > To avoid this kind of ambiguity, i suggest to automatically apply some type of > normalization and/or hashing. There is quite a bit of research about this kind > of normalisation out there, generally with the aim of detecting duplicates. > Perhaps we can learn from bibsonomy.org, have a look how they do it: > <http://www.bibsonomy.org/help/doc/inside.html>. Good idea! -Jodi _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
