Answers.Body: <p>Have a look at Named Entity Recognition (NER); these algorithms are mainly concerned with recognising that there is an entity, but often also include normalising the name to a canonical form for information retrieval -- this is what you would need.</p>
  <p>In a previous job I actually implemented this, using a fuzzy match with variable word order. You would still need to map <em>Corp</em> and <em>Corporation</em> onto each other as exchangable, and deal with acronyms, but that should be tractable.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I am trying to solve a problem where I need to map multiple variations of a company name to a single name. For example: say I have a company named <code>Super Idea Corporation Limited</code>.</p>
  <p>I need to resolve the following to <code>Super Idea Corporation Limited</code></p>
  <ul>
  <li>SICL</li>
  <li>Super Idea Corp Ltd</li>
  <li>SIC Ltd</li>
  <li>SIC Limited</li>
  </ul>
  <p>Is there a non regex way of doing this? The reason I am averse to using regex is that there are a lot of business names that can be represented in many different ways. I want something that is more flexible and adaptive.</p>
  
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Title: Identify whether two companies are the same
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ThreadText: # Identify whether two companies are the same
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2021-09-14)
  
  I am trying to solve a problem where I need to map multiple variations of a company name to a single name. For example: say I have a company named `Super Idea Corporation Limited`.
  
  I need to resolve the following to `Super Idea Corporation Limited`
  
  * SICL
  * Super Idea Corp Ltd
  * SIC Ltd
  * SIC Limited
  
  Is there a non regex way of doing this? The reason I am averse to using regex is that there are a lot of business names that can be represented in many different ways. I want something that is more flexible and adaptive.
  
  **Tags:** natural-language-processing, python
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Can you explain how this question is related to Artificial Intelligence, as defined in our on-topic page (https://ai.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic)?  
  > **username_0**: @username_1, I am not very well researched on NLP. Asked here to see if there is any work done NLP-wise on this particular kind of problem. Hence the tag.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2021-09-15. Score: 1
  
  Have a look at Named Entity Recognition (NER); these algorithms are mainly concerned with recognising that there is an entity, but often also include normalising the name to a canonical form for information retrieval -- this is what you would need.
  
  In a previous job I actually implemented this, using a fuzzy match with variable word order. You would still need to map *Corp* and *Corporation* onto each other as exchangable, and deal with acronyms, but that should be tractable.
  
  
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