Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/308277 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Citation: 
[Journal:] International Journal on Digital Libraries [ISSN:] 1432-1300 [Volume:] 23 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Berlin, Heidelberg [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 267-288
Publisher: 
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
Author affiliations provide key information when attributing academic performance like publication counts. So far, such measures have been aggregated either manually or only to top-level institutions, such as universities. Supervised affiliation resolution requires a large number of annotated alignments between affiliation strings and known institutions, which are not readily available. We introduce the task of unsupervised hierarchical affiliation resolution , which assigns affiliations to institutions on all hierarchy levels (e.g. departments), discovering the institutions as well as their hierarchical ordering on the fly. From the corresponding requirements, we derive a simple conceptual framework based on the subset partial order that can be extended to account for the discrepancies evident in realistic affiliations from the Web of Science . We implement initial baselines and provide datasets and evaluation metrics for experimentation. Results show that mapping affiliations to known institutions and discovering lower-level institutions works well with simple baselines, whereas unsupervised top-level- and hierarchical resolution is more challenging. Our work provides structured guidance for further in-depth studies and improved methodology by identifying and discussing a number of observed difficulties and important challenges that future work needs to address.
Subjects: 
Entity resolution
Affiliation resolution
Formal concept analysis
Association rule learning
Taxonomy induction
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Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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