Overview of IBM InfoSphere Global Name Management
The IBM® InfoSphere® Global Name Management 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 Management 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