What's in a Name?
Abstract
Description
This paper describes experiments on identifying the language of a single name in isolation or in a document written in a different language. A new corpus has been compiled and made available, matching names against languages. This corpus is used in a series of experiments measuring the performance of general language models and names-only language models on the language identification task. Conclusions are drawn from the comparison between using general language models and names-only language models and between identifying the language of isolated names and the language of very short document fragments. Future research directions are outlined.
Presented at the Computational Phonology Workshop, 6th Intl. Conf. Recent Advances in NLP, Borovets, Bulgaria, September 2007
Presented at the Computational Phonology Workshop, 6th Intl. Conf. Recent Advances in NLP, Borovets, Bulgaria, September 2007