Some people give a proper name to an owned individual object, such as car or computer. The study examined whether giving specific object is associated with personification, and more specifically, personification prerequisite giving. latter question was assessed by asking 130 participants whether, in their adult life, they had ever given personal if so, attributed psychological characteristics t...

This paper gives an overview of Personal Name Matching. Personal name matching is of great importance for all applications that deal with personal names. The problem with personal names is that they are not unique and sometimes even for one name many variations exist. This leads to the fact that databases on the one hand may have several entries for one and the same person and on the other hand...

Personal devices such as mobile phones, digital music players, personal digital assistants, console gaming systems, and digital cameras are now ubiquitous in the lives of ordinary people. As these devices proliferate, peer-to-peer connectivity between them is increasingly important. For example, a user may copy photos from a camera to a PC for storage, to a web page for publishing, or to a phot...

Recognition of proper and common nouns was compared in four patients diagnosed with global aphasia secondary to ischemic left-hemisphere infarction. For proper noun recognition, subjects matched the spoken or written name of a famous person to a photograph, and for common nouns, subjects were tested on standardized and special word recognition tests. As expected, common noun recognition was sev...

We present two methods for learning the structure of personal names from unlabeled data. The first simply uses a few implicit constraints governing this structure to gain a toehold on the problem — e.g., descriptors come before first names, which come before middle names, etc. The second model also uses possible coreference information. We found that coreference constraints on names improve the...

Personal information extraction is an important component of advanced information retrieval. There are two problems needed to be solved in this practical task: personal name ambiguity and extraction of personal information for a specific person. For personal name ambiguity, which is a very common phenomenon in the fast growing Web resource, we propose a robust system which extracts features wit...