Chinese Proper Nouns
Proper nouns play a major role in NLP applications, especially machine translation (MT) and named entity extraction (NER). CJKI’s databases of Chinese proper nouns are extremely comprehensive. They cover millions of Chinese and non-Chinese personal names and place names, their romanized variants, and more.
Below are links to the individual product pages of CJKI’s resources for Chinese proper nouns. These pages provide descriptions of each resource, explain how the resources are used and include data samples.
Personal Names
CJKI’s Chinese personal name databases cover given names, surnames, and their countless variants, supplemented with various attributes such pinyin and zhuyin readings, English equivalents, gender codes, and frequency statistics.
Chinese-English Personal Names
Chinese-English database of CJK and Western personal names
Korean-Chinese Personal Names
Korean-Chinese database of CJK and Western personal names
Chinese Name Dialectical Variants
Romanized variants for Chinese (sub)dialects
Chinese-Japanese Personal Names
Chinese-Japanese database of CJK and Western personal names
Chinese Personal Name Variants
Chinese personal names and their romanized variants
Chinese Full Names
Chinese full names of real people including pinyin and zhuyin
Places Names
Chinese-English Place Names
Chinese-English database of CJK and Western place names
Korean-Chinese Place Names
Korean-Chinese database of CJK and Western place names
Chinese-Japanese Place Names
Chinese-Japanese database of CJK and Western place names