I believe these lists exists out on the Internet, just google for
something like "most common first names" or "common
nicknames" (yields: http://www.cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~trobb/nicklist.html
for instance)
If you want to dig deeper, you might look into named entity
recognition research, and also co-reference resolution research, as
those problems often have to deal with this problem.
HTH,
Grant
On Dec 3, 2008, at 5:02 PM, Khawaja Shams wrote:
Hi, Yes that is pretty obvious that I would have to index Tom, but
I think
you missed the point. I don't have a list of names with their nick
names,
and this is pretty common: Mike being Michael, Richard being Rich or
Dick,
William could be Bill or Will, etc. I thought I would check if there
was a
canonical way of doing this before building my own list from common
sir
names. Thanks for your time.
Sincerely,
Khawaja Shams
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:42 AM, Ganesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you want to query for Tom, then you need to index the value Tom.
Create
one more field as Alias or add alias name as part of name field.
Regards
Ganesh
----- Original Message ----- From: "Khawaja Shams"
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Subject: Indexing Names in Lucene -- Thomas = Tom, etc
Hello, I am indexing documents with a field that contains the
first and
last name of people. It is working wonderfully with a slight
issue: if
Thomas is indexed for a document, I would like searches for Tom to
match
that document. I am sure this is a common problem that many of you
must
have
addressed, but I was unable to find anything in the archives or on
Google.
Thanks in advance for the guidance.
Regards,
Khawaja Shams
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