Overview of IBM InfoSphere Global Name Recognition

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