[Corpora-List] Looking for lexicons of names

[Anders.X.Lindstrom at teliasonera.com]

The European project Onomastica (where I participated as an industrial representative) produced name pronunciation dictionaries in 11 languages: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. The work is described in numerous publications by the consortium as well as by individual partners, cf. e.g.:

Onomastica Consortium (1995): "The Onomastica Interlanguage Pronunciation Lexicon". Proceedings Eurospeech 1995, Madrid, Spain, pp. 829-832.

In a follow-up Copernicus project, pronunciation dictionaries in eight additional, Eastern European languages were produced. According ELDA's web-site http://www.elda.org/catalogue/en/speech/S0043.html, the latter project made its results available (unlike the former Onomastica project). 

Best,

Anders Lindström
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-corpora at lists.uib.no 
> [mailto:owner-corpora at lists.uib.no] On Behalf Of Mike Maxwell
> Sent: den 23 januari 2007 04:45
> To: corpora at lists.uib.no
> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Looking for lexicons of names
> 
> Lesley Carmichael wrote:
>  > I'm looking for lexicons of names (people's first names 
> and surnames)
> 
> There are a few listed here
>  
> http://netvouz.com/mcswell/folder/8782604381488675432/Computat
> ional+Linguistics+Named+Entities
> 
> No pronunciations, though.
> -- 
> 	Mike Maxwell
> 	maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu
> 
> 
>