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Proper Noun Identification System AppTek’s NameFinder™ is an advanced technology engine that scans text for proper nouns (such as human names) in various languages—even in writing systems that do not use capitalization. NameFinder™ can also accurately identify the ethno-linguistic origins of a person’s name. The system recognizes transliterations between the Roman (Latin) alphabet and other writing systems, and can identify transliterated names despite discrepancies, ambiguities, or simple misspellings. The system is designed to assist users with multilingual name lexicons. Proper nouns may label locations, persons, currencies, measurements, first or last names, etc. The system features a large database of proper nouns, which may be associated with other nouns and types of events, regardless of their proximity in a given text; it also identifies nouns in free text, using shallow parsing.ComponentsAppTek NameFinder™ is comprised of the following components:
FunctionsNameFinder™ uses local and remote context and statistical information to determine if a word is a potential proper noun. It looks for words that are flagged as “can be a name” in the lexicon, and context clues (such as “Mr.” or “doctor”) to help find other names. The remote context incorporates verbs and words in general that are associated (collocation) with proper nouns. These are determined statistically by using the running text corpora. If a word, or words, are flagged as “can be a name” in the lexicon and context information enforces the proper noun detection, the word is tagged as being a proper name. Words that do not meet both criteria are tagged as potential proper nouns. AppTek NameFinder™ provides the following capabilities:
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