Editing Onomastics (section)

{{Short description|Study of proper names}}
'''Onomastics''' (or '''onomatology''' in older texts) is the study of [[proper name]]s, including their [[etymology]], history, and use.

An ''alethonym'' ('true name') or an ''orthonym'' ('real name') is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study. Scholars studying onomastics are called ''onomasticians''.

Onomastics has applications in [[data mining]], with applications such as [[named-entity recognition]], or recognition of the origin of names.<ref>{{cite arXiv|eprint=1310.6311|class=cs.CY|first1=Elian|last1=Carsenat|title=Onomastics and Big Data Mining|year=2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite arXiv|eprint=1303.0484|class=cs.IR|first1=Folke|last1=Mitzlaff|first2=Gerd|last2=Stumme|title=Onomastics 2.0 - The Power of Social Co-Occurrences|year=2013}}</ref> It is a popular approach in historical research, where it can be used to identify [[ethnic minorities]] within populations<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Crymble|first=Adam|date=2017-02-09|title=How Criminal were the Irish? Bias in the Detection of London Currency Crime, 1797-1821|journal=The London Journal|volume=43|pages=36–52|doi=10.1080/03058034.2016.1270876|doi-access=free|hdl=2299/19710|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Crymble|first=Adam|date=2015-07-26|title=A Comparative Approach to Identifying the Irish in Long Eighteenth-Century London|url=http://researchprofiles.herts.ac.uk/portal/services/downloadRegister/8738332/Irish_Surnames_in_London_2014_repositoryVersion.pdf|journal=Historical Methods|volume=48|issue=3|pages=141–152|doi=10.1080/01615440.2015.1007194|hdl=2299/16184|s2cid=161595975|hdl-access=free|access-date=2017-08-27|archive-date=2020-03-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200314192933/https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/2299/16184/Irish_Surnames_in_London_2014_repositoryVersion.pdf?sequence=3|url-status=live}}</ref> and for the purpose of [[prosopography]].