This data article contains the statistical analysis of Igbo personal names and a sample of randomly selected of such names. This was presented as the following: 1). A simple random sampling of some Igbo personal names and their respective gender associated with each name. 2). The distribution of the vowels, consonants and letters of alphabets of the personal names. 3). The distribution of name ...

Automatic identification of Chinese personal names in unrestricted texts is a key task in Chinese word segmentation, and can affect other NLP tasks such as word segmentation and information retrieval, if it is not properly addressed. This paper (1) demonstrates the problems of Chinese personal name identification in some IT applications, (2) analyzes the structure of Chinese personal names, and...

This paper discusses the challenges which Chinese-English machine translation (MT) systems face in translating personal names. We show that the translation of names between Chinese and English is complicated by different factors, including orthographic, phonetic, geographic and social ones. Four existing systems were tested for their capability in translating personal names from Chinese to Engl...

<p>This study attempts at undertaking a comprehensive of personal names among Ghanaian Hausa. It particularly looks the socio-pragmatic usage Hausa names. This paper argues that give to their children by considering social, cultural, and religious philosophy speech community. The behind these naming practices goes long way help in peculiar identity This, very large extent, hints there is ...