[newfocogi]

Naming things is hard. Noting the two alternative approaches that you referenced are called "vecmap" and "alignment" which "aren't the first/only algorithm for ... and you have no right to claim such a general title" could easily apply there as well.

[jackpirate]

Except those papers are 8ish years old; they actually were among the first 2-3 algs for this task; and they studied the fully general vector space alignment problem. But I agree that naming things is hard and don't have a better name.