A Simple Extraction Procedure for Bibliographical Author Field

TL;DR

This paper introduces a straightforward method for extracting author information from scholarly texts by using capitalization, line breaks, and layout templates, along with disambiguation rules.

Contribution

It presents a novel, simple extraction procedure that effectively handles varied author layouts in bibliographic texts.

Findings

Successfully identifies author segments using capitalization and line breaks

Provides two main layout templates for diverse title pages

Includes disambiguation rules to improve accuracy

Abstract

A procedure for bibliographic author metadata extraction from scholarly texts is presented. The author segments are identified based on capitalization and line break patterns. Two main author layout templates, which can retrieve from a varied set of title pages, are provided. Additionally, several disambiguating rules are described.