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Hickey, Thomas B. – 1981
Using macro and micro-structure analysis of large files of personal author names, this study developed retrieval techniques and algorithms to automatically correct and/or flag typographical errors in names, identify names in a database that are similar to a name entered by a user during a search, and measure similarities between names. It was…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Authors, Bibliographies, Computational Linguistics
Peer reviewedLin, Xia; White, Howard D.; Buzydlowski, Jan – Information Processing & Management, 2003
Describes the design and implementation of a prototype visualization system, AuthorLink, to enhance author searching. AuthorLink is based on author co-citation analysis and visualization mapping algorithms. AuthorLink produces interactive author maps in real time from a database of 1.26 million records supplied by the Institute for Scientific…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Authors, Citation Analysis, Citations (References)


