Author Name Disambiguation via Paper Association Refinement and Compositional Contrastive Embedding

Author name disambiguation (AND) is an essential task for online academic retrieval systems. Recent models adopt representation learning in the author's name disambiguation. Despite achieving remarkable success, these methods may be limited in two aspects. First, the heuristically constructed paper association graphs used for representation learning contain uncertainties that may cause negative supervision. Second, existing algorithms, such as binary cross-entropy loss, used to train representation learning models may not produce sufficiently high-quality representations for AND. To tackle the above problems, we propose an association refining and compositional contrasting (ARCC) framework for AND tasks. ARCC first adopts an iterative graph structure refinement process to dynamically reduce the uncertainties in paper graphs. Then, a compositional contrastive learning method is proposed to encourage learning more discriminative representations for AND. Empirical studies on two benchmark datasets suggest that ARCC is effective for AND and outperforms the state-of-the-art models.