Abstract
This paper proposes a simple and fast person-name filter, which plays an important role in automatic compilation of a large bilingual person-name lexicon. This filter is based on pn_score, which is the sum of two component scores, the score of the first name and that of the last name. Each score is calculated from two term sets: one is a dense set in which most of the members are person names; another is a baseline set that contains less person names. The pn_score takes one of five values, {+2, +1, 0, -1, -2}, which correspond to strong positive, positive, undecidable, negative, and strong negative, respectively. This pn_score can be easily extended to bilingual pn_score that takes one of nine values, by summing scores of two languages. Experimental results show that our method works well for monolingual person names in English and Japanese; the F-score of each language is 0.929 and 0.939, respectively. The performance of the bilingual person-name filter is better; the F-score is 0.955.- Anthology ID:
- L10-1235
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2010
- Address:
- Valletta, Malta
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias
- Venue:
- LREC
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- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- Language:
- URL:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2010/pdf/343_Paper.pdf
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Satoshi Sato and Sayoko Kaide. 2010. A Person-Name Filter for Automatic Compilation of Bilingual Person-Name Lexicons. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10), Valletta, Malta. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- A Person-Name Filter for Automatic Compilation of Bilingual Person-Name Lexicons (Sato & Kaide, LREC 2010)
- PDF:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2010/pdf/343_Paper.pdf