On Foreign Name Search
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چکیده
We address foreign name search in a highly diverse user community. User sophistication ranges from highly experienced archivists to apprehensive users who shy away from technology; apprehensive users dominate system use. Thus, all system interfaces must assume minimal dependency on the user. Our foreign names search approach, called Segments, is language independent; thus, there is no need to determine the language of origin from the diverse candidate set of thirteen languages. We compare Segments against traditional n-gram and Soundex based solutions. Actual and synthetic queries are used to search a names data set resident in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. We also search a subset of the 1990 United States Census Bureau Surnames data set to evaluate the performance of Segments on a predominately language specific (English) collection. Our results demonstrate statistically significant performance gains over both traditional approaches. The described approach supports search efforts at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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