Proper names are usually key to understanding the information contained in a document. Our work focuses on increasing the vocabulary coverage of a speech transcription system by automatically retrieving new proper names from contemporary diachronic text documents. The idea is to use in-vocabulary proper names as an anchor to collect new linked proper names from the diachronic corpus. Our assump...

Document classification based on the lexical-semantic network, wordnet, is presented. Two types of document classification in Serbian have been experimented with – classification based on chosen concepts from Serbian WordNet (SWN) and proper names-based classification. Conceptual document classification criteria are constructed from hierarchies rooted in a set of chosen concepts (first case) or...