Arabic-L:LING:Arabic names responses

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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Date: 30 Jun 2003
From: Tim Buckwalter <timbuckwalter at earthlink.net>
Subject:Arabic names response

Hi, Ada.
I assume you've already extracted all the proper names from my lexicon?
BBN has a copy, I'm sure. If you don't have a copy you can download it
from here:

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2002L49
The Perl one-liner for extracting proper names:
    perl -ne 'print if /\tN.+?\t[A-Z]/' < dictStems
Unfortunately my entries have no information on whether the proper names
are for people or locations, etc.
Regards,
Tim

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Date: 30 Jun 2003
From: Paul Roochnik <paul at TranslationGuy.com>
Subject:Arabic names response

Ada Brunstein said,
"Does anyone know where I can find online lists of proper names in
Arabic?
I'm particularly interested in names of people, organizations, locations
and facilities."
The company where I used to work some years ago, AppTek, did a lot of
work on Arabic names.  AppTek has an extensive computerized lexicon of
Arabic names.  More important, however, AppTek developed software which
reads Arabic texts and identifies proper nouns based on (a) brute-force
lookup and (b) contextual clues.  You might want to contact AppTek
about the "NameFinder" program and/or the NameFinder database.  Go to
www.apptek.com or contact
Cheers from Abu Sammy.

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