NAMEFINDER Trademark

An advanced technology engine that is used to scan text for proper nouns (such as human names) in various languages--even in writing systems that do not use capitalization. NameFinder can also accurately identify the ethno-linguistic origins of a person's name. The system recognizes transliterates between the Roman (Latin) alphabet and other writing systems, and can identify transliterated names despite discrepancies, ambiguities, or simple misspellings. The system is designed to assist customers with multilingual name lexicons. Proper nouns may label locations, persons, currencies, measurements, first or last names, etc. The system holds a large database of proper nouns, which may be associated with other nouns and types of events, regardless of their proximity in a given text; it also identifies nouns in free text, using shallow parsing.