The people who have to choose a given name, know how challenging it is to find a suitable name that fits the social context, the language, the cultural background, and especially, the personal taste. For example, future parents end up browsing through several lists of given names in order to choose a name for their unborn child. A recommender system can help a person in this task by recommendin...

The surnames of the Miziakivski Khutory village are divided into two groups: ones derived from appellatives and others onyms. Particularly that contain lexical items can be personal (when common name acquired individualizing features in a one-step process) non-personal (there is two-step anthroponymization). Surnames motivated by with significance : characterize names people their external feat...

Advance care directives (ACDs) are used in all Australian states and territories, but take different forms and names. In the Northern Territory, they are known as advance personal plans (APPs). An APP allows not only for advanced consent decisions in relation to life support and palliative care, but also the appointment of a substitute decision maker. The powers of the substitute decision maker...

M. Kudo Y. Araki H. Nomiyama S. Saito Y. Sohda Recent incidents involving the loss of personal information and identity theft have raised concerns worldwide over information privacy. In Japan, the Personal Information Protection Act went into effect in April 2005, requiring every enterprise to manage sensitive personal information on servers, workstations, and personal computers throughout the ...

Users' phone numbers are popularly used for finding friends in instant messaging (IM) services. In this paper, we present a new security concern about this search feature through a case study with KakaoTalk which is the most widely used IM in Korea. We demonstrate that there are multiple ways of collecting victims' personal information such as their (display) names, phone numbers and photos, wh...

Name origin recognition is to identify the source language of a personal or location name. Some early work used either rulebased or statistical methods with single knowledge source. In this paper, we cast the name origin recognition as a multi-class classification problem and approach the problem using Maximum Entropy method. In doing so, we investigate the use of different features, including ...

Due to the sensitivity of personal medical information, this paper addresses the need of hiding patient identities — in contrast to only keeping their medical data confidential. Thus, it is desirable that personal and meaningful patient identity information like names, addresses, personal identity numbers, etc., are not to be linked to disclosed electronic patient records (EPR). To achieve this...

This paper examines how, when and where personal names are produced as ‘migrant names’. Drawing on 21 interviews with young Irish Latvian migrants in the UK, I demonstrate how mundane stories, linguistic details, repertoires about migrant embodied, mobile, relational, produce everyday social distinctions. Empirical analysis unpacks changes naming stories throughout participants’ multiple migrat...