A note on the semantic and morphological properties of proper names in the Prolex project

Authors: Vitas, Duško; Krstev, Cvetana; Maurel, Denis

Source: Lingvisticae Investigationes, Volume 30, Number 1, 2007 , pp. 115-133(19)

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Abstract:

In this paper we present a linguistic approach to the analysis of proper names. The basic assumption of our approach is that proper names are linguistic units of text that should be treated using the same methods that are applied to text in its totality. We illustrate the inflectional and derivational properties of simple and multi-word proper names on the example of Serbian, and describe how these properties have been formalized in order to develop e-dictionaries of the DELA type. In order to support multi-lingual applications we have developed a model of a multilingual relational dictionary of proper names based on an ontology, as well as an actual database. Finally, we outline how the developed dictionaries and database can be used in real monolingual and multi-lingual applications, such as information extraction.

Keywords: PROPER NAMES; NAMED ENTITY; MULTILINGUAL ONTOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; MULTI-WORDS UNITS

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/li.30.1.08vit

Publication date: 2007-01-01