I'm not a Natural Language Programming student, yet I know it's
not trivial strcmp(n1,n2). Here's what i've learned so far: -
comparing Personal Names can't be solved 100% - there are ways
to achieve certain degree of accuracy. - the answer will be
locale-specific, that's OK. I'm not looking for spelling
alternatives! The assumption is that the input's spelling is
correct. For example, all the names below can refer to the same
person: - Berry Tsakala - Bernard Tsakala - Berry J. Tsakala -
Tsakala, Berry I'm trying to: - build (or copy) an algorithm
which grades the relationship 2 input names - find an indexing
method (for names in my database, for hash tables, etc.) note:
My task isn't about finding names in text, but to compare 2
names. e.g. name_compare( "James Brown", "Brown, James", "en-US"
) ---> 99.0%