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)