This paper describes machine translation of proper names from Japanese to Japanese Sign Language (JSL). “Proper name transliteration” is a kind of machine translation of proper names between spoken languages and involves character-tocharacter conversion based on pronunciation. However, transliteration methods cannot be applied to Japanese-JSL machine translation because proper names in JSL are ...

Like common noun phrases, proper names contain ambiguous conjoined phrases that make their delimitation and classification difficult in text. This paper presents a finite-state approach to the disambiguation of Portuguese candidate proper name strings containing the coordinating conjunction e (and). In such name strings, the conjunction can denote a relation between two independent names, but i...

Previous research has consistently shown differences between the processing of proper names and of common nouns, leading to the belief that proper names possess a special neuropsychological status. We investigate the category of brand names and suggest that brand names also have a special neuropsychological status, but one which is different from proper names. The findings suggest that the hemi...

As it is impossible to have a lexicon with complete coverage, and a high proportion of unknown words are proper names, this paper addresses the issue of automatically finding pronunciations of unseen proper names in US English. Proper names, especially in the US, may come from a large range of ethnic backgrounds. We present a model and results showing that including ethnic origin of words in a ...