InfoSphere Global Name Reference Encyclopedia

Interactive encyclopedia including culture-specific information about names, usage, meanings, and patterns

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 IBM Global Name Reference Encyclopedia includes culture-specific information about names, their use, their meanings, and their patterns of spelling variations. It is a standalone offering that leverages a vast store of cultural and linguistic knowledge and was developed using detailed studies of nearly a billion names from every country in the world.

With this release, new cultural information is provided on Indian and Vietnamese names. In addition, there is a new STC-character lookup capability for Chinese which allows you to access character variants and dialects for Chinese by specifying just the STC (Standard Telegraphic Code) character.