proper names dear linguists looking information references regarding proper names especially people names proper names difficult handle nlp applications various reasons one thing sure wish analyse large corpora texts bump large number proper names many foreign proper names trying gather possible piece knowledge references pointers welcome many languages regarding following points order enhance syntactic analyser french standard fashion name people french usually first name last name language may add simple pattern additonal pieces kind unusual character may found proper names example france may find names brittany like rowarc h floc h quote likely cause segmentation errors holds dutch names op hof etc official rules spelling proper names especially names composed prepositional phrases like de gaulle van voorst tot voorst words parts capitalized frequent morphemes used proper names words used preferred way creating new proper names restricted list morphemes compounding rules proper names enough interest post summary many thanks advance francois