This PET study has revealed the neural system involved in implicit face, proper-name and object name processing during an explicit visual 'same' versus 'different' matching task. Within the identified system, some areas were equally active irrespective of modality (faces or names) or type of stimuli (famous and non-famous) while other areas exhibited differential effects. Our findings support t...

Various strategies are proposed to identify and classify three types of proper nouns in Chinese texts. Clues from character, sentence and paragraph levels are employed to resolve Chinese personal names. Character, Syllable and Frequency Conditions are presented to treat transliterated personal names, To deal with organization names, keywords, prefix, word association and parts-of-speech are app...

This paper proposes a multilevel representation of personal names, with the aim of offering an economical treatment for these expressions, which makes a clear distinction between ontological information, described in a name database, and linguistic levels of representation. Adopting the linguistic model and formalisms provided within the MeaningóText framework (Mel’čuk 1988), it is argued that...

This paper introduces the task of Chinese personal name disambiguation of the Second CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing (CLP) 2012 that Natural Language Processing Laboratory of Zhengzhou University took part in. In this task, we mainly use the Vector Space Model to disambiguate Chinese personal name. We extract different named entity features from diverse names informa...

Almost every person has a life-long personal name which is officially recognised and has only one correct version in their language. Each personal name typically has two components/parts: a first name (also known as given, fore, or Christian name) and a last name (also known as family name or surname). Both these name components are strongly influenced by cultural, economic, historical, politic...

Selective retrieval is a rather difficult task, and especially so when one attempts to retrieve personal representations such as faces or names. Retrieval of memories under strong competition conditions is pervasive in human memory and some have suggested that inhibitory control is used to overcome interference between competing stimuli. In the present study, we used the retrieval practice para...

It is analyzed that the family names of personal donators who donated through China Construction Bank Corporation to Chinese Red Cross Foundation for the WenChuan earthquake. The distribution of family names, the first 100 family names and their shares, the probability of the same family names as well as the Gini coefficient are all given in this paper. A heavy disproportion is showed in the di...

An internet user is often frustrated by the ambiguous names in the web search results when the user is trying to find information about some person. Hierarchical clustering methods are often used to cluster the personal names referred to the same entities. As the correct number of the entities for a given personal name can not be accessed, we are required to determine the cut points in the dend...