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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 12, 1996
Yael Ravin, Mt. Kisco, NY (US);
Misook A Choi, Mt. Kisco, NY (US);
Faye Nina Wacholder, Roslyn Heights, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Occurrences of proper names in text are identified by scanning one or more documents in a database of a computer system to identify one or more sequences of capitalized words and other specially defined words that appear in the documents as raw names. Each of the raw names has zero or more proper names, zero or more medial substrings, zero or more leading substrings, and zero or more trailing substrings. The raw names of one or more documents are 'cleaned' and 'split' until certain 'cleaning and splitting conditions' are no longer met to obtain a list of clean and split candidate names.