A Method for Identifying Japanese Shop and Company Names by Spatiotemporal Cleaning of Eccentrically Located Frequently Appearing Words.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Artificial Intelligence Volume 2012, Article ID 562604, 18 pages doi:10.1155/2012/562604 Research Article A Method for Identifying Japanese Shop and Company Names by Spatiotemporal Cleaning of Eccentrically Located Frequently Appearing Words Yuki Akiyama1 and Ryosuke Shibasaki2 1 Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo, Cw-503 Shibasaki Laboratory, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan 2 Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa City, Chiba 277-8568, Japan Correspondence should be addressed to Yuki Akiyama, aki@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp Received 23 July 2011; Revised 9 November 2011; Accepted 2 December 2011 Academic Editor: Mohamed Afify Copyright © 2012 Y. Akiyama and R. Shibasaki. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We have developed a method for spatiotemporally integrating databases of shop and company information, such as from a digital telephone directory, spatiotemporally, in order to monitor dynamic urban transformations in a detailed manner. To realize this, an additional method is necessary to verify the identicalness of different instances of Japanese shop and company names that might contain fluctuations of description. In this paper, we discuss a method that utilizes an n-gram model for comparing and identifying Japanese words. The processing accuracy was improved through developing various kinds of libraries for frequently appearing words, and using these libraries to clean shop and company names. In addition, the accuracy was greatly and novelty improved