Identifying the culture of a name

NameWorks includes functions that identify the culture of personal names, using the NameClassifier—Country of Association (NC_COA) API component. The functions perform a simple culture classification first then, if a single culture cannot be selected, a more complex analysis of country associations is performed to determine possible cultures. In the case of organization names, culture may be automatically inferred from script type where names are written in supported non-Latin scripts, or it may be supplied by the user. For Latin-script organization names, culture must be supplied by the user, othereise a culture of Ambiguous will be assumed.