Saul Kripke's thesis that ordinary proper names are rigid designators is supported by widely shared intuitions about the occurrence of names in ordinary modal contexts. By th...
Transliteration is used to phonetically translate proper names and technical terms especially from languages in Roman alphabets to languages in non-Roman alphabets such as from En...
Identifying the occurrences of proper names in text and the entities they refer to can be a difficult task because of the manyto-many mapping between names and their referents. We...
Multilingual applications frequently involve dealing with proper names, but names are often missing in bilingual lexicons. This problem is exacerbated for applications involving t...
Communication is about people, not machines. But as firms and families alike spread out geographically, we rely increasingly on telecommunications tools to keep us "connected...
This article describes a finite-state cascade for the extraction of person names in texts in French. We extract these proper names in order to categorize and to cluster texts with...
Translation of proper names is generally recognized as a significant problem in many multi-lingual text and speech processing applications. Even when large bilingual lexicons use...
Abstract. Pronunciation by analogy (PbA) is a data-driven approach to phonetic transcription that generates pronunciations for unknown words by exploiting the phonological knowledg...
Tasanawan Soonklang, Robert I. Damper, Yannick Mar...