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Bruno P. Kinoshita commented on SANDBOX-487:
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Hi Sebb
> There are some people who have only a single name. This seems to be true of
> at least some Buddhists.
Good point. IIRC the library throws an Exception if no last name is found.
About one year ago I attended a talk on data management in Brazil, and the
speaker told us about a limitation in their systems that prevented a user of
renting a car. Looks like someone was legally registered as "Felipe" IIRC. That
is his full name on his document. No idea why (usually orphans receive "Silva"
or "da Silva" in Brazil).
Also, Teller from Penn & Teller [is
mononymous|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teller_(magician)] is mononymous (he
changed his name). So we probably need to remove that restriction from the code.
> "Given name(s)" and "Family name" are perhaps better than "first" and "last",
> but may not be entirely universal.
That's another good point. I wonder if something like [Wiki on personal name
structure|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_name#Structure] or maybe some
standard could be used as reference for deciding which option to use.
Using the existing code in GitHub, and the Pedro II of Brazil's full name in
the example below
{noformat}
String name = "Pedro de Alcântara João Carlos Leopoldo Salvador Bibiano
Francisco Xavier de Paula Leocádio Miguel Gabriel Rafael Gonzaga";
HumanNameParserParser parser = new HumanNameParserParser(name);
String first = parser.getFirst();
String middle = parser.getMiddle();
String last = parser.getLast();
System.out.println("First: " + first);
System.out.println("Middle: " + middle);
System.out.println("Last: " + last);
{noformat}
we get
{noformat}
First: Pedro
Middle: de Alcântara João Carlos Leopoldo Salvador Bibiano Francisco Xavier de
Paula Leocádio Miguel Gabriel Rafael
Last: Gonzaga
{noformat}
If we changed to Given name and Family name, would the output be similar to the
one below?
{noformat}
Given Names: Pedro de Alcântara João Carlos Leopoldo Salvador Bibiano Francisco
Xavier de Paula Leocádio Miguel Gabriel Rafael
Last: Gonzaga
{noformat}
If so, perhaps we could keep the existing behaviour and simply add given names?
> Human name parser
> -----------------
>
> Key: SANDBOX-487
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SANDBOX-487
> Project: Commons Sandbox
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Commons Text
> Reporter: Bruno P. Kinoshita
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: name, parser, text
>
> The project
> [HumanNameParser.java|http://tupilabs.github.io/HumanNameParser.java/] is a
> port to Java of the
> [HumanNameParser.php|http://jasonpriem.org/human-name-parse/], both licensed
> under the MIT License.
> This issue was created to discuss a similar parser, based on the Java
> version, to the [text] component.
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