Advanced NameSearch Capability- Sifting though Missing, Extra, or Noise Words As mentioned above, the Rulebase system also sorts through noise words. (Noise words are elements in
a name that do not help in the identification of a candidate. Examples of noise words are: Incorporated, Corporation, Limited, Junior, Senior, Avenue and Street.)
While processing the data, NameSearch goes through sanitization. This function removes noise characters, extra spaces, control characters and converts lower case letters to uppercase.
The sanitization process also uses a small rulebase of its own. This rulebase is applied after all the alpha characters have been converted to upper case letters and extra blanks are removed. This rulebase is used to recognize words that contain noise characters or prefixes that could be affected by the sanitization process.
Examples of noise characters are: @, #. $, %, ^, &, *, (, ), }, {, [, ]. Commas, hyphens and quotes are handled as separate properties. Commas usually indicate the insertion of a last name, therefore Sanitization will place words followed by commas at the end of the string. Hyphens are replaced by spaces, and Quotes are deleted and the spaces between them are removed.
More Advanced NameSearch Capabilities:
Spelling Error Processing
Rulebase Expertise
Phonetic Error Processing
Sifting through word sequence variationsg
Acronym Recognition
<back>
