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James T Connor

Anurag Acharya

Alexandre A Verstak

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for associating resources with entities. One of the methods includes clustering a plurality of first documents into one or more first document groups, wherein each of the one or more first document groups is associated with a proper name of an author; receiving a query that specifies a particular proper name of a particular author; generating a result list of one or more documents that satisfy the query, the documents being listed in order of rank; ranking the one or more first document groups based on the one or more documents that satisfy the query; and providing the one or more first document groups, wherein the one or more first document groups are presented in an order based on the ranking.

Associating resources with entities

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for associating resources based on resource associations. One of the methods includes receiving a first profile, wherein the first profile is for a first author, wherein the first profile links to one or more first documents, wherein the first author is an author of each of the one or more first documents; identifying, one or more second authors, wherein each of the one or more second authors is a co-author of one or more of the first documents; calculating, respective co-author scores for each of the one or more second authors; ranking, the one or more second authors based on their respective co-author scores; and associating, the one or more second authors with the first profile, the first profile includes a listing of the one or more second authors in an order according to the ranking.

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James T Connor