UNED PanMorCrepsTeam at M-WePNaD

This paper describes the participation of the PanMorCresp team in the Multilingual Web Person Name Disambiguation task of IberEval 2017. The solutions consisted of different variants of the traditional hierarchical agglomerative clustering algorithm. The four approaches have been defined and implemented independently by three Master’s students over the same vocabulary generation software. The purpose of this is to analyse to what extent the HAC design and implementation can affect the effectiveness of clustering. Using a simplistic approach based on hierarchical agglomerative clustering method, considering just word occurrence, is able to achieve relatively good results regarding the rest of systems presented in the campaign.