Improving author name disambiguation with explanations of deep learning models
摘要
This paper focuses on deep learning–based methods for the Author Name Disambiguation (AND) task. It introduces a feature attribution method to explain AND models by identifying the most influential features in distinguishing name-ambiguous entities (papers). Based on these explanations, we propose a novel technique to improve model accuracy in the AND task. This technique optimizes model training using explanations in two key areas: training set selection and entity attribution prior. Experiments were conducted on the benchmark dataset S2AND, which includes six mainstream AND datasets such as Aminer, Arnetminer, and PubMed. The results show that applying explanations during AND model training improves accuracy by an average of 4.2% across the six datasets compared to basic neural networks. An ablation study further validates the performance improvements at different stages of model training.