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Wanted: software to identify "close" matches in a datase t of names (either individuals or companies).

Posted By James Howison 10-08-2009 15:43
Found In Egroup: Organization and Management Theory OMT \ view thread

I was working on something like this recently (for entity resolution in records of free software projects). It's a surprisingly hard problem, particularly if you want to deal with variation of names (e.g. match "Howison, J", "J Howison", "J L Howison" and "James Linton Howison" but not ...