of persons or places." ["Onomastics". Merriam-Webster.com, 2013.
http://www.merriam-webster.com (11 February 2013)]. Especially personal names
play an important role in daily life, as all over the world future parents are
facing the task of finding a suitable given name for their child. This choice
is influenced by different factors, such as the social context, language,
cultural background and, in particular, personal taste.
With the rise of the Social Web and its applications, users more and more
interact digitally and participate in the creation of heterogeneous,
distributed, collaborative data collections. These sources of data also reflect
current and new naming trends as well as new emerging interrelations among
names.
The present work shows, how basic approaches from the field of social network
analysis and information retrieval can be applied for discovering relations
among names, thus extending Onomastics by data mining techniques. The
considered approach starts with building co-occurrence graphs relative to data
from the Social Web, respectively for given names and city names. As a main
result, correlations between semantically grounded similarities among names
(e.g., geographical distance for city names) and structural graph based
similarities are observed.
The discovered relations among given names are the foundation of "nameling"
[http://nameling.net], a search engine and academic research platform for given
names which attracted more than 30,000 users within four months,
underpinningthe relevance of the proposed methodology. ER - TY - CONF AU - Mitzlaff, Folke AU - Stumme, Gerd A2 - Aberer, Karl A2 - Flache, Andreas A2 - Jager, Wander A2 - Liu, Ling A2 - Tang, Jie A2 - Guéret, Christophe T1 - Namelings - Discover Given Name Relatedness Based on Data from the Social Web. T2 - SocInfo PB - Springer CY - PY - 2012/ M2 - VL - 7710 IS - SP - 531 EP - 534 UR - http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/pub/pdf/mitzlaff2012namelings.pdf M3 - KW - itegpub KW - engine KW - 20DC13 KW - nameling KW - demo KW - l3s KW - given KW - myown KW - 2012 KW - names KW - search L1 - SN - 978-3-642-35385-7 N1 - N1 - AB - ER - TY - CONF AU - Mitzlaff, Folke AU - Stumme, Gerd A2 - Marathe, Madhav A2 - Contractor, Noshir T1 - Ranking Given Names T2 - Proceedings of the 1st ASE International Conference on Social Informatics PB - IEEE computer society CY - PY - 2012/ M2 - VL - IS - SP - 185 EP - 191 UR - M3 - KW - itegpub KW - engine KW - ranking KW - analysis KW - l3s KW - given KW - myown KW - 2012 KW - names KW - serach L1 - SN - N1 - N1 - AB - ER -