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Matchsimile: A flexible approximate matching tool for searching proper names

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  • Gonzalo Navarro
  • Ricardo Baeza‐Yates
  • João Marcelo Azevedo Arcoverde

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We present the architecture and algorithms behind Matchsimile, an approximate string matching lookup tool especially designed for extracting person and company names from large texts. Part of a larger information extraction environment, this specific engine receives a large set of proper names to search for, a text to search, and search options; and outputs all the occurrences of the names found in the text. Beyond the similarity search capabilities applied at the intraword level, the tool considers a set of specific person name formation rules at the word level, such as combination, abbreviation, duplicity detections, ordering, word omission and insertion, among others. This engine is used in a successful commercial application (also named Matchsimile), which allows searching for lawyer names in official law publications.

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  • Gonzalo Navarro & Ricardo Baeza‐Yates & João Marcelo Azevedo Arcoverde, 2003. "Matchsimile: A flexible approximate matching tool for searching proper names," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 54(1), pages 3-15, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:54:y:2003:i:1:p:3-15
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.10178
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