Foreign Person Names and Chinese Person Names Recognition in Chinese Texts
Foreign person name (FP-name) and Chinese person name (CP-name) candidates are generated according to their inherent characteristics. Then add all candidates into the segmentation digraph of a sentence as vertices and assign a weight to each edge of the digraph with statistics derived from the training corpus. Thus the shortest path of the digraph is exactly the correct segmentation of the sentence. When select the correct segmentation of the sentence, FP-names and CP-names can be recognized. The proposed method can avoid person name errors brought up by segmentation. The experimental result shows the F value is 97.30% in close test.