Text Search of Surnames in Some Slavic and Other Morphologically Rich Languages Using Rule Based Phonetic Algorithms

Author

Zahoransky, Dusan ; Polasek, Ivan

Author_Institution

Software Eng., Slovak Univ. of Technol. (FIIT STU), Bratislava, Slovakia

Volume

23

Issue

3

fYear

2015

fDate

Mar-15

Firstpage

553

Lastpage

563

Abstract

Surnames play a key role as person natural identifiers, essentially in present information systems. This paper deals with the topic of optimizing a phonetic search algorithm as a string matching of surnames usable for communications service providers, person registries, social networks or genealogy databases. It describes a proposed solution for the phonetic searching of Slovak and (territorial) neighboring languages (Czech, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, German, Hungarian, Jewish) surnames. This solution was designed to improve search precision and recall when searching for people by their surnames originating in these languages.

Keywords

information retrieval; natural language processing; Czech language; German language; Hungarian language; Jewish language; Polish language; Russian language; Slovak language; Ukrainian language; communications service providers; genealogy databases; information systems; morphologically rich language; natural identifiers; person registries; phonetic search algorithm; rule based phonetic algorithm; search precision; search recall; slavic language; social networks; surname string matching; surname text search; Algorithm design and analysis; Databases; Europe; IEEE transactions; Materials; Speech; Speech processing; Algorithms; information retrieval; natural languages;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

2329-9290

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TASLP.2015.2393393

Filename

7012074