In April of 1945, as the war in Europe was in its final desperate phase, Winston Churchill took a momentary break from directing the entire British military and political effort in order to dash off a quick note to some (thankfully) nameless low-level official in the Foreign Office who had …
Why KYD Matters In my previous post, there was a chart that shows the extent to which a relatively small number of name-models predominate in OFAC SDN data. My ultimate purpose in providing that graphic was two-fold: To show that reliance on mediocre, Anglo-centric name-screening techniques such as SOUNDEX and …
Ah, the many drawbacks of fame and fortune… One of the most spectacularly successful examples of personal branding on the planet is: Màikè’ěr· Qiaodan. What’s that? Never heard of him? That’s odd, because at least a billion other people know him very well. The know his soaring silhouette, his profile, …
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What if someone told you that there was a recent event of global significance that involved people named Meyvezer and Pak’yao. Would you guess that it was related to, say, North Korean nuclear ambitions, or Chinese naval aggression in the Sea of Japan? Or are you clever enough to see …
According to the 2010 U.S. Census, there are some 1.7 million U.S. residents who identify themselves as being principally of Korean descent . Many large cities across the U.S. have sizeable Korean communities, and these communities generate a significant amount of commercial activity. For these reasons and more, it is …
One of the most challenging aspects of automated name-processing is accounting for the many ways in which a name can be changed when it is adapted from its original written form for representation in a different writing system. Perhaps the most benign form of this problem can be seen when …
Name-matching can be as simple as a quick visual scan of a Contacts list on a cell phone, or as complex as a multi-technique automated review of billions of lines of unstructured data in search of possible references to one or more persons of interest. Tools and techniques to cope …
The term name-centric processing refers to any automated or manual process in which a successful outcome is wholly or principally dependent on technologies and human judgment applied to named entities (NEs). Such processes can range in complexity from a simple membership look-up to sophisticated, real-time assessments of vital intelligence data …
Data assets are among the most valuable resources that an organization possesses. Many tools and technologies have been made available in the marketplace in recent years to help organizations exploit these data assets more effectively, in order to advance organizational goals or to gain a competitive advantage. This is the …
