Not particularly challenging but a cool name: Maximilian Maria Thurn and Taxis
On 13.10.2014 at 18:54 Uhr -0400 Ralph DiMola apparently wrote:
This is something I know about. Between a pretty decent VB com .dll and additional in house rules I get about 95.98% accuracy splitting up US/international name components. But there still is the .02% that need individual attention. I never process lists > 100,000 so this error rate is acceptable. My system would have heart failure with a > 3 part last name. Into the .02% bucket... "Dr. Bob Brown Trustee for Ms. June Smith" would not be split correctly. A reference to a relationship between two people is beyond my systems ability. The Mac Donald or apostrophes like O'Connel or hyphens like Foster-Smith are the easy cases even though one never knows what apostrophe variation will be used. When the last name is space delimited with nonstandard prefixes that it starts to get interesting. The only way to sort names with 100% accuracy is to have the name components from the get-go and use Unicode from start to finish. Maybe Watson can do it 100%, but I can't afford the CPU time. I can't wait until LC 7 gets settled down and I can use Unicode LC for production text processing. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net
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