Name alias generation

synonames generates aliases for human names across cultural environments. Names often have different spellings in different languages and cultures - for example, Alexander can also be Alexandr or Oleksandr. This repository reads a data dump from Wikidata to filter out every human name from every language edition of Wikipedia and map them across language editions.

The resulting file can be used as a set of synonyms, for example to expand search queries against a dataset about people.

Building

Setup the build environment with make, to generate the synonames files, run make build in the build environment.

Links

• https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-synonym-tokenfilter.html
• https://gist.github.com/dchaplinsky/ad68e3d0887db44766a459c806dbd9d7