The main application of name searching has b e ~ name matching in a database of names. This paper discusses a different application: improving information retrieval through name recognition. It investigates name recognition accuracy, and the effect on retrieval performance of indexing and searching personal names differently from non-name terms in the context of ranked retrieval. The main concl...

This paper explores the possible role of named entities in an automatic indexing process, based on text in subtitles. This is done by analyzing entity types, name density and name frequencies in subtitles and metadata records from different TV programs. The name density in metadata records is much higher than the name density in subtitles, and named entities with high frequencies in the subtitl...

Speech recognition of names in Personal Information Management (PIM) systems is an important yet difficult task. The difficulty arises from various sources: the large number of possible names that users may speak, different ways a person may be referred to, ambiguity when only first names are used, and mismatched pronunciations. In this paper we present our recent work on name recognition with ...

This study is based on anthroponomastics (anthroponymy), the of personal names, which one principal branches onomastics: proper names all kinds. In this study, Makkan males and females are investigated hoping to shed some light naming system applicable in city Makkah, particular, Saudi Arabia general. Thus, attempts answer following questions: 1- What socio-cultural aspects anthroponomastics? 2...

We propose a hybrid architecture for the NTCIR-5 CLQA C-C (Cross Language Question Answering from Chinese to Chinese) Task. Our system, the Academia Sinica Question-Answering System (ASQA), outputs exact answers to six types of factoid question: personal names, location names, organization names, artifacts, times, and numbers. The architecture of ASQA comprises four main components: Question Pr...

The article is devoted to anemonyms — proper names of natural disasters. relevance the study due scanty, fragmentary data on in Russian onomastics that hardly correlate with results foreign studies, while before our eyes anemonym has transformed from a marginal onomastic implicature into an independent onymic unit performs functions inherent all categories names. In connection climate crisis, n...

“Investigator Names” is a newly required field in MEDLINE citations. It consists of personal names listed as members of corporate organizations in an article. Extracting investigator names automatically is necessary because of the increasing volume of articles reporting collaborative biomedical research in which a large number of investigators participate. In this paper, we present an SVM-based...