When parents select similar sounding names for their children, do they set themselves up for more speech errors in the future? Questionnaire data from 334 respondents suggest that they do. Respondents whose names shared initial or final sounds with a sibling's reported that their parents accidentally called them by the sibling's name more often than those without such name overlap. Having a sib...

Named entities (NE) mentioned in textual databases constitute an important part of their semantics. Lists of those NE are an important knowledge source for diverse tasks. We present a method for NE identification focused on composite proper names (names with coordinated constituents and names with several prepositional phrases.) We describe a method based on heterogeneous knowledge and simple r...

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