Contributors

Expectations:

  • Users expect search to locate works by or about a person/organisation

  • Users expect search results to return a list of contributor with an exact or close-enough name match

  • Users expect works by that contributor to be grouped together

  • Users expect search text with the exact name of an author should return their works or works they have contributed towards as first results

  • Where there are multiple contributors with similar names, creation date may be used as secondary criteria to disambiguate, but this doesn’t cover cases where a work was published posthumously

  • Inclusion of titles, honorifics and middle names/initials can pose problems when we’re tuning for precision over recall

Examples:

  • Frederic Cayley Robinson

  • Levasseur

  • Ursula Philip

  • Royal Astronomical Society

  • A K JOHNSON

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