Name Parser
Name parsing is the process of splitting a name string into its components.
| Examples by culture: Examples: |
| Examples by culture: Examples: |
| Examples by culture: Examples: |
Developer: see the technical specification of the REST service.
Identifying the culture is key to understanding the terms.
- Prof Dr Mary-Louise D. Miller Jr => English
- Abd al-Masih Al-Azawi => Arabic
- Dong Hua Lee => Chinese
Only after the culture has been identified, the name parts can be understood and split correctly.
Parsing the person's name is the first step for additional processing, such as genderizing.
Applications
- Extracting first names and last names from a full name string.
- Identifying the gender of a person.
- Culture profiling.
- Differentiating between natural and legal people (businesses).
- Identifying individual people within a name string.
Although colonization and globalization have caused naming systems to be more uniform, there are still plenty of cultural peculiarities that make this process challenging.