Kazakh first names and changing naming practices

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...

Naming Practices and Ethnic Identity in Tuva

Web Proper Names: Naming Referents on the Web

When http: URIs are used to refer to things not on the Web as opposed to web pages, ambiguity arises on the Web. Both humans and machines need to solve the question of what someone is actually referring to when they use a http: URI, especially if that URI can be used both to refer to a web page and a thing that is not on the Web. We propose a multi-tiered solution we called “Web Proper Names” t...

Unsupervised naming of speakers in broadcast TV: using written names, pronounced names or both?

Persons identification in video from TV broadcast is a valuable tool for indexing them. However, the use of biometric models is not a very sustainable option without a priori knowledge of people present in the videos. The pronounced names (PN) or written names (WN) on the screen can provide hypotheses names for speakers. We propose an experimental comparison of the potential of these two modali...

Naming with Proper Names: The Left Temporal Pole Theory

Existing empirical data on proper names processing are critically reviewed in trying to understand which tasks may involve the left temporal pole, which proper name related functions are supported by this structure and eventually offer some speculations about why these functions might have developed in this location in the course of human evolution. While clinical group studies support the idea...