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  <Title>Unsupervised Personal Name Disambiguation</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper presents a set of algorithms for distinguishing personal names with multiple real referents in text, based on little or no supervision. The approach utilizes an unsupervised clustering technique over a rich feature space of biographic facts, which are automatically extracted via a language-independent bootstrapping process. The induced clustering of named entities are then partitioned and linked to their real referents via the automatically extracted biographic data. Performance is evaluated based on both a test set of hand-labeled multi-referent personal names and via automatically generated pseudonames.</Paragraph>
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