InfoSphere Global Name Analytics

Recognize, analyze, and standardize names to fight threat and fraud

Increase precision for name processing by delivering cultural classification as a range of scores for automated processing.
Add intelligence to automated name processing by applying business rules specific to the name's culture.
Increase accuracy and selectivity by examining each possible name, rather than using a key-based approach.
Increase usefulness of search results by delivering matched names in ranked order with a confidence score for automated processing.
Reduce false positives by intelligently processing the cultural variations found in names.

The Global Name Analytics bundle is a standalone best-of-breed suite of name-recognition technologies that addresses the specific needs and demands of managing multicultural name data sets. It provides cultural classification of a personal name, allowing greater accuracy when applying linguistic and statistical analysis on the names, including:

Recognizing the gender.
Providing frequency information -- like the probability a name token is a masculine or feminine name.
Determining which name, of a given name combination, is likely to be the given name or surname.
Generating possible alternative romanized spellings for a name.