This paper deals with a multilingual relational lexical database of proper name, Prolexbase, a free resource available on the CNRTL website. The Prolex model is based on two main concepts: firstly, a language independent pivot and, secondly, the prolexeme (the projection of the pivot onto particular language), that is a set of lemmas (names and derivatives). These two concepts model the variati...

A single, indirect exposure to a novel word provides information that could be used to make a fast mapping between the word and its referent, but it is not known how well this initial mapping specifies the function of the new word. The four studies reported here compare preschoolers' (N = 64) fast mapping of new proper and common names following an indirect exposure requiring inference with the...

We address the problem of transliterating English names using Chinese orthography in support of cross-lingual speech and text processing applications. We demonstrate the application of statistical machine translation techniques to “translate” the phonemic representation of an English name, obtained by using an automatic text-to-speech system, to a sequence of initials and finals, commonly used ...

Title of dissertation: THE SEMANTICS OF PROPER NAMES AND OTHER BARE NOMINALS Yu Izumi, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Dissertation directed by: Professor Paul M Pietroski Department of Philosophy This research proposes a unified approach to the semantics of the so-called bare nominals, which include proper names (e.g., Mary), mass and plural terms (e.g., water, cats), and articleless noun phrases i...

The aim of this presentation is to introduce a syntactic analysis of Polish proper names of places. This study focuses on names of places in Warsaw, mainly places that have a postal address. We will introduce briefly the domain of our interest and give statistics of the collected data. Then, we will review types of syntactic structures that have the highest frequency in our corpus. The goal of ...

This paper describes the classifier part of a named entity recogniser for Norwegian which uses memory-based learning to categorise proper names. Names are classified into one of the categories Person, Organisation, Location, Work, Event, or Other. We test the effect of using different features as input to the model, ranging from knowledge-poor features such as windows of inflected forms, to fea...

The reliability of the topics within the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) needs to be evaluated constantly to justify the efforts for experiments within CLEF and to demonstrate the validity of the results as far as possible. The analysis presented in this paper is concerned with several aspects. Continuing and expanding a study from 2002, we investigate the difficulty of topics and the co...

This paper presents Nemesis, a French proper name (PN) recognizer for Large-scale Information Extraction (IE), whose specifications have been elaborated through corpus investigation both in terms of referential categories and graphical structures. The graphical criteria are used to identify proper names and the referential classification to categorize them. The system is a classical one: it is ...

What are brand names? This question has fascinated marketers and researchers for decades and has been addressed from various perspectives. There is the marketing view that brand names are part of the actual product and services (e.g., Javed, 1993); there is the branding view that brand names are linguistic symbols associated with a set of new meanings (Aaker, 1991; Keller, 1998); there is the s...

Existing empirical data on proper names processing are critically reviewed in trying to understand which tasks may involve the left temporal pole, which proper name related functions are supported by this structure and eventually offer some speculations about why these functions might have developed in this location in the course of human evolution. While clinical group studies support the idea...