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Identifying Foreign Person Names in Chinese Text

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Identifying Foreign Person Names in Chinese Text
Foreign name expressions written in Chinese characters are difficult to recognize since the sequence of characters represents the Chinese pronunciation of the name. This paper suggests that known English or German person names can reliably be identified on the basis of the similarity between the Chinese and the foreign pronunciation. In addition to locating a person name in the text and learning that it is foreign, the corresponding foreign name is identified, thus gaining precious additional information for cross-lingual applications. This idea is implemented as a statistical module into a rule-based named entity recognition system.
Stephan Busemann, Yajing Zhang
Added 29 Oct 2010
Updated 29 Oct 2010
Type Conference
Year 2008
Where LREC
Authors Stephan Busemann, Yajing Zhang
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