Proper names are usually keys to understand the information contained in a document. Our work focuses on increasing the vocabulary size of a speech transcription system by automatically retrieving proper names from contemporary diachronic text corpus. We assume that some proper names appear in documents relating to the same time period and in similar lexical contexts. We proposed methods that d...

Naming practices offer a window onto linguistic processes of productivity that rely on input from interacting streams of information. Previous studies have looked at proper personal names and binomial combinations of proper personal names to show that phonological features such as rhythm, semantic features such as gender, and corpus features such as word frequency play an important role in nami...

Can we believe that there are non-existent entities without commitment to Meinongian metaphysics? This paper argues we can. Let’s say we propose that, as appearances suggest, names like Pegasus refer to non-existent things. They are not, in other words, empty names, names without referents. Rather, they are terms that refer, and so have referents, but the referents do not exist. Moreover, at le...

A case presenting an anomia specific for person proper names but no naming impairment either for other types of proper names or for common names is reported. The deficit was equally present both in face-naming and in naming upon definition and was not affected by the descriptiveness of the labels borne by the individuals. The patient had no semantic processing impairment either for faces or nam...