Abstract: An extraction system of Chinese names was designed. The system adopts the neural network to deal with the Chinese word segmentation, then carries on extraction of name by means of rearmounted characteristic word according to name. The system solves the question of extracting Chinese name succes sfully whose tail character and the following character construct a word. With the sentences with this kind of name in “People’s Daily”’s corpus base of Janua ry of 1998 the testing data, the result shows that the recall and precision rates are all improved a lot compared with existing methods.

Key words: name extraction, neural network, character extraction