This paper (i) describes some of the main problems involved in automatic recognition of personal titles and names in newspaper texts, (2) outlines some rules of an algorithm designed to perform this task, (3) presents statistics concerning the algorithm's accuracy and exhaustiveness obtained in manual application of the algorithm to texts, (4) discusses and interprets some of the results, and (...

As is well known, Lycia, located on the south-western coast of Asia Minor, was a multicultural and polyglossian area, especially during second half Ist millennium B.C. From 4th century onwards — that before Alexander’s conquests Greek writing language became more predominant in region, as prestige, to detriment Lycian, which an Anatolian related Luwian Hittite.
 Although most indigenous pe...

The article classifies anthroponyms in Azerbaijani folk tales and epics by thematic groups studies the ritual-mythological, religious (Sufi) semantics magical function of these names. Personal names' role is based on human-natural, individual-communal, sacred-profane, friend-foe relations. Epithets indicating negative or positive nature characters are also taken into account context people's wo...

Abstract In this paper, we develop a machine learning classifier that predicts perceived ethnicity from data on personal names for major ethnic groups populating Russia. We collect VK, the largest Russian social media website. Ethnicity was coded languages spoken by users and their geographical location, with manually cleaned crowd workers. The shows accuracy of 0.82 scheme 24 0.92 15 aggregate...