Compared with the standard alias detection ("Surf+HomB") approach (Hsiung et al., 2005), our proposed approach achieves significantly better performance (99.9% confidence level by the Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs Signed-Ranks Test for Acc@1).
for example, the tweet from Twitter "...把 薄 熙 来 称 作"平 西 王"或 者"不 厚"... (...call Bo Xilai"peace west king" or "buhou"...)" contains both the morph and the real target 薄熙 来 (Bo Xilai).