[Corpora-List] Re: Ontology of Common English Name

[Galileo Namata]

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.

http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer - Click on a story you are interested in
and click on a name to start exploring the name database. (Thanks to Ralf
Steinberger)

http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/names_files.html - Name frequency of
names from the 1990 US Census.

http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html - A java tool showing the
frequency of names based on the Social Security Administration data.
http://www.thinkbabynames.com/ - 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.
 Thanks.
 Galileo

On 10/17/05, Galileo Namata <namatag at cs.umd.edu> wrote:
>
> Good day,
> 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?
>  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.
>  To reduce mail traffic, you can email me privately on any information and
> I can compile and send the results to the list.
>  Galileo
>
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