Automatic processing proper names in texts

TL;DR

This paper discusses the challenges of processing proper names in natural language, introduces a knowledge representation using conceptual graphs, and evaluates techniques for handling known and unknown proper names.

Contribution

It presents a novel approach using conceptual graphs for proper name processing and details techniques for recognizing and managing known and unknown proper names.

Findings

System performance metrics are provided.

Techniques for processing known proper names are demonstrated.

Methods for handling unknown proper names are explained.

Abstract

This paper shows first the problems raised by proper names in natural language processing. Second, it introduces the knowledge representation structure we use based on conceptual graphs. Then it explains the techniques which are used to process known and unknown proper names. At last, it gives the performance of the system and the further works we intend to deal with.