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GEOINFO
2007
14 years 8 days ago
Approximate String Matching for Geographic Names and Personal Names
The problem of matching strings allowing errors has recently gained importance, considering the increasing volume of online textual data. In geotechnologies, approximate string mat...
Clodoveu A. Davis, Emerson de Salles
COLING
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Simple and Efficient Algorithm for Approximate Dictionary Matching
This paper presents a simple and efficient algorithm for approximate dictionary matching designed for similarity measures such as cosine, Dice, Jaccard, and overlap coefficients. ...
Naoaki Okazaki, Jun-ichi Tsujii
LREC
2010
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14 years 9 days ago
Indexing Methods for Faster and More Effective Person Name Search
This paper compares several indexing methods for person names extracted from text, developed for an information retrieval system with requirements for fast approximate matching of...
Mark Arehart
CHI
1993
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Pictographic naming
We describe pictographic naming, a new approach to naming for pen-based computers, in which filenames are pictures rather than ASCII strings. Handwriting recognition (HWX) of a n...
Daniel P. Lopresti, Andrew Tomkins
LREC
2008
112views Education» more  LREC 2008»
14 years 8 days ago
A Ground Truth Dataset for Matching Culturally Diverse Romanized Person Names
This paper describes the development of a ground truth dataset of culturally diverse Romanized names in which approximately 70,000 names are matched against a subset of 700. We ra...
Mark Arehart, Keith J. Miller