The Possessive Form for Personal Bird Names

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...

Semantic Transliteration of Personal Names

Words of foreign origin are referred to as borrowed words or loanwords. A loanword is usually imported to Chinese by phonetic transliteration if a translation is not easily available. Semantic transliteration is seen as a good tradition in introducing foreign words to Chinese. Not only does it preserve how a word sounds in the source language, it also carries forward the word's original semanti...

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...

User-Relative Names for Globally Connected Personal Devices

Personal devices such as mobile phones, digital music players, personal digital assistants, console gaming systems, and digital cameras are now ubiquitous in the lives of ordinary people. As these devices proliferate, peer-to-peer connectivity between them is increasingly important. For example, a user may copy photos from a camera to a PC for storage, to a web page for publishing, or to a phot...

Matchsimile: A Flexible Approximate Matching Tool for Personal Names Searching