IM InfoSphere Identity Insight, Version 8.0

Overview of Name Manager

Name Manager

Name Manager increases name precision for advanced name confirmation issues, such as multiple name transliterations, misspellings within cultures, spelling variations within cultures and from culture-to-culture, and names that use patronymic or honorific designations. It uses the IBM InfoSphere Global Name Recognition component libraries, which contain a knowledge-base of over 1,000,000,000 multicultural names and unique linguistic information, which adds culture-specific name matching capabilities.

Name Manager scores names using the following process:
  • Categorizes names by name type (personal or business)
  • Parses personal names into name parts
  • Classifies names by culture (supports more than 20 cultures, including Afgani, Arabic, Farsi, Han, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, and Yoruban)
  • Normalizes personal names (if the name is classified as either Anglo, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hispanic, Indian, Korean, Russian, or Thai)

Configuring Name Manager

By default, Name Manager name scoring is already enabled and configured when you install IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight. However, you can use the Configuration Console to review or change Name Manager configuration settings, including the following settings:
  • Name Manager system parameters, including the support path to Name Manager component libraries (global parameters that the pipeline uses to perform entity resolution)
  • Name Manager name scoring thresholds used during name matching (confirmations and denials)


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Last updated: 2011