<div>I wanted to follow up on an earlier post I submitted. I actually only received one reply, which was not a surprise given I have spent a great deal of time trying to find a name onthology myself, but I did find some interesting links that maybe of interest to some on the list. It's not much but I promised to forward my results and I prefer to at least provide some resolution to this thread.
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<p><a href="http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer">http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer</a> - Click on a story you are interested in and click on a name to start exploring the name database. (Thanks to Ralf Steinberger)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/names_files.html">http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/names_files.html</a> - Name frequency of names from the 1990 US Census.</p>
<p><a href="http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html">http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html</a> - A java tool showing the frequency of names based on the Social Security Administration data.</p>
<div><a href="http://www.thinkbabynames.com/">http://www.thinkbabynames.com/</a> - Most complete one I found which not only lists the source of a given name, but includes variants. The only problem here is the information therein seems to be proprietary.
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<div>Thanks.</div>
<div> </div>Galileo<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/17/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Galileo Namata</b> <<a href="mailto:namatag@cs.umd.edu">namatag@cs.umd.edu</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div>I'm working on a project involving named entity resolution and was looking for an ontology of common english names. By this, I mean an ontology which lists Bill as a common possible nickname for William or inversely Robert can have a nicknames like Rob and Bob. Does anyone know of any such publicly available data?
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<div>Relevant sources I've found thus far includes the common names in the U.S. from census information and a name explorer tool also based on census data.</div>
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<div>To reduce mail traffic, you can email me privately on any information and I can compile and send the results to the list.</div><span class="sg">
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