I was wondering if anyone has done people name matching using Lucene. For example, I have a name coming from some external source that I would like to match with the one I have in my DB. Lets say my DB contains the name "John Smith". If the external source has something like "Smith John", "Smith, John", "J. Smith", etc., I would like to rate this matching based on some % of closeness for review later. I've searched around a bit for algorithms and I kept seeing the Levenshtein distance algorithm which I'm sure Lucene uses under the hood. So I trying to guage if Lucene is useful for doing something specific as this, or are there better algorithms and/or software out there that does name matching. Thanks in advance!
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