See IBM's UIMA project or "Gate" for Entity extraction tools. Cheers Mark
ps this is a java-user question, not a java-dev topic. --- "Mario Alejandro M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm building a search engine couple with database > info... I wanna to detect > things like phone-numbers, adress, money values, > etc... > > This things are easy with regex... but exist things > like persons names and > places that I not can see how detect... > > for example, below in the mail is my name, a web > adress and a phrase... How > can detect my name in the text? I have a database of > names, but if the name > is writed: > > Mario > Mario A. Montoya > Mario Alejandro Montoya Cortés > Mario Alejandro Montoya C. > > I don't can simply do a direct lookup... > > Any ideas in how this can be build, like is working > with smart tags in > office? > -- > Mario Alejandro Montoya > MCP > MUTIS: The Open source Delphi search engine > http://mutis.sourceforge.net/ > ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Model Search 2005 - Find the next catwalk superstars - http://uk.news.yahoo.com/hot/model-search/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]