We propose two hashing-based solutions to the problem of fast and effective personal names spelling correction in People Search applications. The key idea behind our methods is to learn hash functions that map similar names to similar (and compact) binary codewords. The two methods differ in the data they use for learning the hash functions the first method uses a set of names in a given langua...

Four experiments examined young children's knowledge about the visual characteristics of writing, specifically personal names. Children younger than 4 years of age, even those who could read no simple words, showed some knowledge about the horizontal orientation of English names, the Latin letters that make them up, and their left-to-right directionality. Preschoolers also had some familiarity ...

Anecdotal and anthropological evidence suggests that personal names are of considerable psychological significance, but they have not received much attention from psychologists. The relationship between the familiarity of first names and the degree to which they are liked is of particular interest from the point of view of research in related areas of experimental aesthetics. Evidence from inve...

Personal names used in the second edition of The Gebusi are in most cases actual names. This includes persons who have given permission for their real names to be used and for persons whose depiction in the text is nonproblematic and/or if they have been deceased for a number of years. This reflects the fact that the Gebusi generally are pleased to have their real identities represented to the ...

In this paper, we analyze Chinese personal names to model their statistical phonotactic characteristics for continuous Chinese speech recognition. The analysis showed languagespecific characteristics of Chinese personal names and strongly suggested the advantage of character-unit oriented modeling. A hierarchical language model was composed by reflecting statistical phonotactic characteristics ...

In this report, we examine what information retrieval techniques can help identify documents that contain answers to different types of question. In particular, we exploit different external resource according to the type of question. In particular, Wikipedia will be exploited for identifying personal names and their translation, as well as biography-related keywords. Google search engine is us...

Abstract. Onomastics is “the science or study of the origin and forms of proper names of persons or places.” Especially personal names play an important role in daily life, as all over the world future parents are facing the task of finding a suitable given name for their child. This choice is influenced by different factors, such as the social context, language, cultural background and, in par...

Indonesian exhibits parallel patterns of truncation in the short forms of terms of address and the short forms of personal names. As illustrated in (1a), many common terms of address are formed from the base of a kinship term and appear in both a "long" and "short" form. It is the short forms that are understood here to be truncated. For personal names, a similar pattern is seen where a vocativ...