Introduction
KDD Cup 2013 (Track 2): Identify which authors correspond to the same person
The ability to search literature and collect/aggregate metrics around publications is a central tool for modern research. Both academic and industry researchers across hundreds of scientific disciplines, from astronomy to zoology, increasingly rely on search to understand what has been published and by whom.
Microsoft Academic Search is an open platform that provides a variety of metrics and experiences for the research community, in addition to literature search. It covers more than 50 million publications and over 19 million authors across a variety of domains, with updates added each week. One of the main challenges of providing this service is caused by author-name ambiguity. This KDD Cup task challenges participants to determine which authors in a given data set are duplicates.
More information on KDD Cup 2013 (Track 2) can be found at Kaggle.com