Copyright 2008, Jeffrey Regier

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Author-Dedupe is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

Author-Dedupe is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with Author-Dedupe.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

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Slight variations in the spellings of people's names make it difficult to tell
which names refer to the same person. This problem is particularly striking 
when processing large sets of author names.

Author-Dedupe is Python software for merging author names which refer to the
same person. Simple string matching via regular expressions is used, but that's
just the start. Author-Dedupe iteratively partitions the authors' names, with
each successive iteration further refining the partition of author names. The
algorithm is detailed on the project web site.

Input is read from a file containing one author name per line. For each line of
input, one line containing the corrected name is written to the output file.
Sample input and output files may be found in the 'sample' subdirectory. The
main executable is found at 'src/author-dedupe.py'. It takes two arguments:
an input file and an output file.

If you have questions or comments, or you're interested in contributing code to
this project, please contact jeff [at] stat [dot] berkeley [dot] edu.