ONOMASTICA - Creating a Multi-Lingual Dictionary

The objective of the ONOMASTICA project is to make available quality controlled pronunciation lexicons of European names in machine readable form (CD-ROM). Tran- scription of up to 1.000.000 names per language will be produced in a semi-automatic way. We at KTH are responsible for the Swedish part of the project, in co-operation with TELIA who provided us with the name database. This paper will present the work we have done so far and discuss some of the problems we have met.