diff --git a/data/xml/H90.xml b/data/xml/H90.xml
index 096a9023b1..a6afd34c4c 100644
--- a/data/xml/H90.xml
+++ b/data/xml/H90.xml
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@
 		<author><first>S.</first><last>Das</last></author>
 		<author><first>P. V.</first><last>deSouza</last></author>
 		<author><first>M.</first><last>Epstein</last></author>
-		<author><first>R. L.</first><last>Mercer</last></author>
+		<author><first complete="Robert L.">R. L.</first><last>Mercer</last></author>
 		<author><first>B.</first><last>Merialdo</last></author>
 		<author><first>D.</first><last>Nahamoo</last></author>
 		<author><first>M. A.</first><last>Picheny</last></author>
diff --git a/data/xml/H92.xml b/data/xml/H92.xml
index f02e5e67f2..7dd1352068 100644
--- a/data/xml/H92.xml
+++ b/data/xml/H92.xml
@@ -149,10 +149,10 @@
 
 	<paper id="1020">
 		<title>ADAPTIVE LANGUAGE MODELING USING MINIMUM DISCRIMINANT ESTIMATION*</title>
-		<author><first>S.</first><last>Della Pietra</last></author>
-		<author><first>V.</first><last>Della Pietra</last></author>
-		<author><first>R. L.</first><last>Mercer</last></author>
-		<author><first>S.</first><last>Roukos</last></author>
+		<author><first complete="Stephen">S.</first><last>Della Pietra</last></author>
+		<author><first complete="Vincent">V.</first><last>Della Pietra</last></author>
+		<author><first complete="Robert L.">R. L.</first><last>Mercer</last></author>
+		<author><first complete="Salim">S.</first><last>Roukos</last></author>
 	</paper>
 
 	<paper id="1021">
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@
 		<author><first>Ezra</first><last>Black</last></author>
 		<author><first>Fred</first><last>Jelinek</last></author>
 		<author><first>John</first><last>Lafferty</last></author>
-		<author><first>Robert</first><last>Mercer</last></author>
+		<author><first complete="Robert L.">Robert</first><last>Mercer</last></author>
 		<author><first>Salim</first><last>Roukos</last></author>
 	</paper>
 
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@
 		<author><first>Fred</first><last>Jelinek</last></author>
 		<author><first>John</first><last>Lafferty</last></author>
 		<author><first>David M.</first><last>Magerman</last></author>
-		<author><first>Robert</first><last>Mercer</last></author>
+		<author><first complete="Robert L.">Robert</first><last>Mercer</last></author>
 		<author><first>Salim</first><last>Roukos</last></author>
 	</paper>
 
diff --git a/data/xml/H94.xml b/data/xml/H94.xml
index b83d8d7d62..a3338cbf24 100644
--- a/data/xml/H94.xml
+++ b/data/xml/H94.xml
@@ -356,12 +356,12 @@
 
 	<paper id="1052">
 		<title>Decision Tree Parsing using a Hidden Derivation Model</title>
-		<author><first>F.</first><last>Jelinek</last></author>
-		<author><first>J.</first><last>Lafferty</last></author>
-		<author><first>D.</first><last>Magerman</last></author>
-		<author><first>R.</first><last>Mercer</last></author>
-		<author><first>A.</first><last>Ratnaparkhi</last></author>
-		<author><first>S.</first><last>Roukos</last></author>
+		<author><first complete="Frederick">F.</first><last>Jelinek</last></author>
+		<author><first complete="John">J.</first><last>Lafferty</last></author>
+		<author><first complete="David">D.</first><last>Magerman</last></author>
+		<author><first complete="Robert L.">R.</first><last>Mercer</last></author>
+		<author><first complete="Adwait">A.</first><last>Ratnaparkhi</last></author>
+		<author><first complete="Salim">S.</first><last>Roukos</last></author>
 	</paper>
 
 	<paper id="1053">
diff --git a/data/xml/P93.xml b/data/xml/P93.xml
index 5d0df19878..2f946fcd77 100644
--- a/data/xml/P93.xml
+++ b/data/xml/P93.xml
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
  <author><first>Fred</first><last>Jelinek</last></author>
  <author><first>John</first><last>Lafrerty</last></author>
  <author><first>David M.</first><last>Magerman</last></author>
- <author><first>Robert</first><last>Mercer</last></author>
+ <author><first complete="Robert L.">Robert</first><last>Mercer</last></author>
  <author><first>Salim</first><last>Roukos</last></author>
  <address>Columbus, Ohio, USA</address>
  <bibkey>black-EtAl:1993:ACL</bibkey>
@@ -750,4 +750,4 @@
  <year>1993</year>
 </paper>
 
-</volume>
\ No newline at end of file
+</volume>
diff --git a/data/xml/W13.xml b/data/xml/W13.xml
index b023630a6e..d5af57ff0c 100644
--- a/data/xml/W13.xml
+++ b/data/xml/W13.xml
@@ -190,11 +190,11 @@
 
   <paper id="0112">
     <title>Multi-Step Regression Learning for Compositional Distributional Semantics</title>
-    <author><first>E.</first><last>Grefenstette</last></author>
-    <author><first>G.</first><last>Dinu</last></author>
-    <author><first>Y[ao-Zhong]</first><last>Zhang</last></author>
-    <author><first>M.</first><last>Sadrzadeh</last></author>
-    <author><first>M.</first><last>Baroni</last></author>
+    <author><first complete="Edward">E.</first><last>Grefenstette</last></author>
+    <author><first complete="Georgiana">G.</first><last>Dinu</last></author>
+    <author><first complete="Yao-Zhong">Y.</first><last>Zhang</last></author>
+    <author><first complete="Mehrnoosh">M.</first><last>Sadrzadeh</last></author>
+    <author><first complete="Marco">M.</first><last>Baroni</last></author>
     <booktitle>Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2013) – Long Papers</booktitle>
     <month>March</month>
     <year>2013</year>
diff --git a/data/xml/W14.xml b/data/xml/W14.xml
index cb3537ed23..1acc307367 100644
--- a/data/xml/W14.xml
+++ b/data/xml/W14.xml
@@ -8027,7 +8027,7 @@ Automated Measures of Specific Vocabulary Knowledge from Constructed Responses (
       <last>Houngbo</last>
     </author>
     <author>
-      <first>Robert</first>
+      <first complete="Robert E.">Robert</first>
       <last>Mercer</last>
     </author>
     <booktitle>Proceedings of the First Workshop on Argumentation Mining</booktitle>
@@ -8304,7 +8304,7 @@ Automated Measures of Specific Vocabulary Knowledge from Constructed Responses (
       <last>Graves</last>
     </author>
     <author>
-      <first>Robert</first>
+      <first complete="Robert E.">Robert</first>
       <last>Mercer</last>
     </author>
     <author>
@@ -8329,7 +8329,7 @@ Automated Measures of Specific Vocabulary Knowledge from Constructed Responses (
       <last>Ibn Faiz</last>
     </author>
     <author>
-      <first>Robert</first>
+      <first complete="Robert E.">Robert</first>
       <last>Mercer</last>
     </author>
     <booktitle>Proceedings of the First Workshop on Argumentation Mining</booktitle>
@@ -8403,7 +8403,7 @@ Automated Measures of Specific Vocabulary Knowledge from Constructed Responses (
       <last>Mao</last>
     </author>
     <author>
-      <first>Robert</first>
+      <first complete="Robert E.">Robert</first>
       <last>Mercer</last>
     </author>
     <author>
@@ -10794,7 +10794,7 @@ Automated Measures of Specific Vocabulary Knowledge from Constructed Responses (
       <last>Xiao</last>
     </author>
     <author>
-      <first>Robert</first>
+      <first complete="Robert E.">Robert</first>
       <last>Mercer</last>
     </author>
     <booktitle>
diff --git a/data/yaml/name_variants.yaml b/data/yaml/name_variants.yaml
index 2d15f5fc41..00b1a8a038 100644
--- a/data/yaml/name_variants.yaml
+++ b/data/yaml/name_variants.yaml
@@ -2473,6 +2473,7 @@
   variants:
   - {first: V., last: DELLA PIETRA}
   - {first: V., last: Della Pietra}
+  - {first: Vincent, last: Della Pietra}
   - {first: Vincent, last: DellaPietra}
 - canonical: {first: Felice, last: Dell’Orletta}
   variants:
@@ -7204,7 +7205,6 @@
     Robert Mercer
   variants:
   - {first: Robert E., last: MERCER}
-  - {first: Robert, last: Mercer}
 - canonical: {first: Robert L., last: Mercer}
   comment: IBM; also published as Robert Mercer, overlapping with another Robert Mercer
   variants:
@@ -12039,10 +12039,11 @@
 - canonical: {first: Xiuzhen (Jenny), last: Zhang}
   variants:
   - {first: Xiuzhen, last: Zhang}
-- canonical: {first: Yao-zhong, last: Zhang}
+- canonical: {first: Yao-Zhong, last: Zhang}
   variants:
   - {first: Yao Zhong, last: Zhang}
-  - {first: 'Y[ao-Zhong]', last: Zhang}
+  - {first: Yao-zhong, last: Zhang}
+  - {first: Y., last: Zhang}
 - canonical: {first: Ying, last: Zhang}
   variants:
   - {first: Joy Ying, last: Zhang}