@inproceedings{sato-kaide-2010-person,
    title = "A Person-Name Filter for Automatic Compilation of Bilingual Person-Name Lexicons",
    author = "Sato, Satoshi  and
      Kaide, Sayoko",
    editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta  and
      Choukri, Khalid  and
      Maegaard, Bente  and
      Mariani, Joseph  and
      Odijk, Jan  and
      Piperidis, Stelios  and
      Rosner, Mike  and
      Tapias, Daniel",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'10)",
    month = may,
    year = "2010",
    address = "Valletta, Malta",
    publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/L10-1235/",
    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."
}