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Name Matching Between Roman and Chinese Scripts
October 2009
Ken Samuel, The MITRE Corporation
Alan Rubenstein, The MITRE Corporation
Sherri Condon, The MITRE Corporation
Alex Yeh, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
There are generally many ways to transliterate a name from one language script into another. The resulting ambiguity can make it very difficult to "untransliterate" a name by reverse engineering the process. In this paper, we present a highly successful cross-script name matching system that was developed by combining the creativity of human intuition with the power of machine learning. Our system correctly determines whether a name in Chinese script and a name in Roman script match with an F-score of 96%. In addition, for name pairs that satisfy a computational test, the F-score is 98%.
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