Collectif, Personal Names and Naming Practices in Medieval Scotland

Plant names of medieval England

unknown at any time or anywhere, but this is a very recent and fragile development. Of special fascination to historians of European imperialism from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century is Cohen's statement on page 141 that "a good case can be made that urban European populations of that period may have been among the nutritionally most impoverished, the most disease-ridden, and the shortes...

Effective Factors on Naming Practices in Iran: Sociopolitics or Dialect?

Naming as an inseparable sign of a country’s language has attracted the attention of many linguists to formulate and test hypotheses regarding the culture and language of the people of a certain area. Iran appears like a proper destination for conducting a research focusing on naming based on several factors such as geography or chronology. The present article aims to take a specific look at th...

Personal Names in Modern Turkey

We analyzed the most common 5000 male and 5000 female Turkish names based on their etymological, morphological, and semantic attributes. The name statistics are based on all Turkish citizens who were alive in 2014 and they cover 90% of all population. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the most comprehensive data-driven analysis of Turkish personal name inventory. Female names have a g...

Approximate String Matching for Geographic Names and Personal Names

The problem of matching strings allowing errors has recently gained importance, considering the increasing volume of online textual data. In geotechnologies, approximate string matching algorithms find many applications, such as gazetteers, address matching, and geographic information retrieval. This paper presents a novel method for approximate string matching, developed for the recognition of...

Naming Practices and Ethnic Identity in Tuva