The IBM® InfoSphere Global Name Recognition product
contains technologies to manage, search, analyze, and compare multicultural
name data sets by leveraging culture-specific name data and linguistic
rules that are associated with the name's culture.
The components within IBM InfoSphere Global Name Recognition enable
you to:
- Identify and classify the most likely culture (ethnic category)
of a name, including the countries in which the given name or surname
is most often found
- Recognize and report the relative frequencies of gender (male
or female) associated with given names
- Parse personal names into surname and given name components
- Generate lists that contain variant forms of the components (given
name and surname) of a name
- Search and match names using culture-specific search strategies
- Match names even if they are affected by typical spelling and
cultural variations, related by sound but not by spelling, or damaged
by spelling and typing errors
- Match names even if some of their components (given name or surname)
are missing or are not in the correct order
- Match names on both pronunciation and orthography, with the closest
matches returned first
- Adjust search parameters for highly tunable and application-specific
results
- Separate personal names from organization names
- Compare date values, which can be useful when searching for a
name that has an associated date value (such as date of birth), or
compute differences between date values
API components and server processes
API
components and server processes in this bundle include:
- IBM NameWorks, an integrated high-level API
- NameParser®
- NameClassifier™
- NameClassifier - Country of Association
- Country of Association
- NameHunter®
- Distributed Search process
- NameGenderizer®
- NameVariationGenerator®
- NameSifter
- DateCompare