This paper presents the HITSZ-PolyU system in the CIPS-SIGHAN bakeoff 2012 Task 3, Chinese Personal Name Disambiguation. This system leveraged the Chinese encyclopedia Baidu Baike (Baike) as the external knowledge to disambiguate the person names. Three kinds of features are extracted from Baike. They are the entities’ texts in Baike, the entities’ work-of-art words and titles in the Baike. Wit...

We demonstrate the use of context features, namely, names of places, and unlabelled data for the detection of personal name language of origin. While some early work used either rule-based methods or n-gram statistical models to determine the name language of origin, we use the discriminative classification maximum entropy model and view the task as a classification task. We perform bootstrappi...

This document describes a framework for preparing Unicode text strings in order to increase the likelihood that string input and string comparison work in ways that make sense for typical users throughout the world. The stringprep protocol is useful for protocol identifier values, company and personal names, internationalized domain names, and other text strings. This document does not specify ...

The increasing use of large open-domain document sources is exacerbating the problem of ambiguity in named entities. This paper explores the use of a range of syntactic and semantic features in unsupervised clustering of documents that result from ad hoc queries containing names. From these experiments, we find that the use of robust syntactic and semantic features can significantly improve the...

This document describes a framework for preparing text strings in order to increase the likelihood that string input and string comparison work in ways that make sense for typical users throughout the world. The stringprep protocol is useful for protocol identifier values, company and personal names, internationalized domain names, and other text strings. This document does not specify how prot...

This document describes a framework for preparing Unicode text strings in order to increase the likelihood that string input and string comparison work in ways that make sense for typical users throughout the world. The stringprep protocol is useful for protocol identifier values, company and personal names, internationalized domain names, and other text strings. This document does not specify ...

This document describes a framework for preparing text strings in order to increase the likelihood that string input and string comparison work in ways that make sense for typical users throughout the world. The stringprep protocol is useful for protocol identifier values, company and personal names, internationalized domain names, and other text strings. This document does not specify how prot...

This document describes a framework for preparing text strings in order to increase the likelihood that string input and string comparison work in ways that make sense for typical users throughout the world. The stringprep protocol is useful for protocol identifier values, company and personal names, internationalized domain names, and other text strings. This document does not specify how prot...

There is a great deal of confusion in the cryptology literature relating to various identity related issues. By “names” (lower case), we are referring to informal, personal ways that we indicate others; by “NAMES” (upper case) we are referring to official ways that we use to indicate others. Both of these concepts are often confused with “identity”, which is something else altogether, and with ...

When parents select similar sounding names for their children, do they set themselves up for more speech errors in the future? Questionnaire data from 334 respondents suggest that they do. Respondents whose names shared initial or final sounds with a sibling's reported that their parents accidentally called them by the sibling's name more often than those without such name overlap. Having a sib...