IBM Entity Analytics Solutions Global Name Recognition technologies deliver name-recognition solutions
IBM United States Software Announcement 206-160July 11, 2006
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IBM Entity Analytics Solutions:
- 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
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| Overview |
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Entity Analytics Solutions Global Name Recognition technologies, part of the newly acquired Language Analysis Systems (LAS) products, address the specific needs and demands of managing, searching, scoring, and matching multicultural name data sets.
Entity Analytics Solutions Global Name Recognition, a set of best-of-breed name-recognition and name-scoring technologies, includes:
- Global Name Management V2.1
- Global Name Analytics V2.1
- Global Name Scoring V2.1
- Global Name Reference Encyclopedia V2.1
Entity Analytics Solutions Global Name Recognition technologies solve the complex problem of searching and managing data on individuals in a multicultural, error-prone world. The technologies can spot fraud and other threats. The software takes into account alternative spellings, cultural nuances, and other linguistic issues as part of an attempt to return the most relevant information for a search query, rather than a laundry list of close matches.
Name-recognition technology is used by international government and commercial clients, and
complements existing Entity Analytic Solutions, including technology acquired last year through the
purchase of identity resolution company SRD.
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Hardware requirements
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July 11, 2006
- Electronic software delivery
- Media and documentation
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| Description |
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Global Name Management V2.1
The Global Name Management bundle is a best-of-breed suite of name-recognition and name-scoring technologies designed to address the specific needs and demands of managing, searching, scoring, and matching multicultural name data sets. It consists of the complete analytic and scoring capabilities.
While most traditional name-recognition software is designed to manage and score data assets in westernized, romanized cultures, the Global Name Management bundle was designed using the unique knowledge base of Entity Analytics Solutions (EAS). This knowledge base consists of the global linguistic knowledge and expertise gained from 20 years of linguistic research and the analysis of nearly a billion names from across the world.
Working from this ever-expanding knowledge base, EAS has developed a suite of tools designed to meet the unique demands of managing data sets from cultures as diverse as Anglo/European, Arabic, Chinese, Hispanic, French, German, Indian, Korean, Pakistani, Russian/Slavic, Thai, Japanese, Western African cultures, and more.
Global Name Management leverages cultural-specific name data and builds rules associated with the names culture to perform the best matching, management, parsing, and scoring results. Global Name Management is an industry-leading technology that lets you search, recognize, and manage multicultural names, screen potential threats, and perform background checks across multiple geographies and cultures.
Global Name Analytics V2.1
The Global Name Analytics bundle is a stand-alone, best-of-breed suite of name-recognition technologies that addresses the specific needs and demands of managing multicultural name data sets. It provides cultural classification of a personal name, allowing greater accuracy when applying linguistic and statistical analysis on the names, including:
- Recognizing the gender
- Providing frequency information — like the probability a name token is a masculine or feminine name
- Determining which name, of a given name combination, is likely to be the given name or surname
- Generating possible alternative romanized spellings for a name
Global Name Scoring V2.1
Global Name Scoring is a stand-alone bundle for clear text and phonology-oriented search and scoring of multicultural names in a database to provide the most likely variations. Names can be matched even if they are affected by typical spelling and cultural variations, related by sound but not by spelling, or damaged by spelling and typing errors. The vagueness and inexactness of transliteration and pronunciation can be overcome when working with the great variety of contrasting cultural naming patterns and styles of use around the globe.
Global Name Scoring improves the accuracy of name searching, transliteration, and the quality of identity verification initiatives by providing ranked search results, based on the linguistic, phonetic, and specific cultural variation patterns of names. It works from a knowledge base of information focused on the specific culture of a name and utilizes these rules associated with the names from that culture to perform the best matching and the best search results. Based on an industry-leading technology, it lets you search and recognize foreign names, screen potential threats, and perform background checks across multiple geographies and cultures.
Global Name Reference Encyclopedia V2.1
This interactive encyclopedia includes culture-specific information about names, their use, their meanings, and their patterns of spelling variations. It is a stand-alone 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 STC1-character look up capability for Chinese which allows you to access character
variants and dialects for Chinese by specifying just the STC character.
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Hardware requirements
Hardware requirements are specific to each product deployment and are generally proportional to:
- The total number of names to be processed
- The number of name-recognition transactions to be processed per unit of time
Software requirements
IBM Global Name Management, Global Name Analytics, and Global Name Scoring product bundles
Platforms
- Windows™ 2000 and Windows 2003 on x86
- Solaris 8 and 9
- Red Hat Linux™ AS on x86
- AIX 5L™ on POWER4™ and POWER5™
Database requirements: The product bundles require no database management software.
Compiler requirements — The product bundles support API-level access using the following compilers:
- Windows/x86: Microsoft™ Visual Studio V6, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003
- Sun Solaris: Sun Forte V6, Free Software Foundation gcc v3.2
- Linux/x86: Free Software Foundation gcc v3.2
- AIX®: Visual Age C++ V6
Planning
Performance and throughput for the name-recognition products are generally proportional to three key factors:
- Number of CPUs available
- Clock speed of the CPU used
- RAM resources
Applications involving the Global Name Analytics bundle will generally require somewhat fewer CPU cycles and RAM, while applications involving the Global Name Scoring products (NameHunter, MetaMatch) will require greater resources in number of CPUs, CPU cycles, and RAM.
Global Name Reference Encyclopedia (NRE)
The NRE is offered only for use on Intel® x86 processor platforms under Windows 2000 or Windows 2003. It requires both:
- Microsoft Internet Information Server (MS-IIS) V5.0, or later
- Microsoft .NET SDK V1.1
Clients can access an NRE instance using either:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer V4, or later
- Netscape V5, or later
Planning information
Customer responsibilities: Software Maintenance, previously referred to as Software Subscription and Technical Support, is included in the Passport Advantage Agreement. Installation and technical support is provided by the Software Maintenance offering of the IBM International Passport Advantage Agreement. This fee service enhances customer productivity, with voice and electronic access into IBM support organizations.
Packaging
Global Name Management V2.1
- International Program License Agreement (Z125-3301)
- License Information booklet (L-JTYY-6NRMLZ)
- Three CDs
Global Name Analytics V2.1
- International Program License Agreement (Z125-3301)
- License Information booklet (L-JTYY-6NRMUD)
- Three CDs
Global Name Scoring V2.1
- International Program License Agreement (Z125-3301)
- License Information booklet (L-JTYY-6NRMV5)
- Two CDs
Global Name Reference Encyclopedia V2.1
- International Program License Agreement (Z125-3301)
- License Information booklet (L-JTYY-6NRMVN)
- One CD
Security, auditability, and control
The IBM Entity Analytics Solutions Global Name Recognition technologies use the security and auditability features of the host hardware or software.
The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features,
administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication
facilities.
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Product information
Licensed function title Product group Product
category
IBM Global Name Analytics IBM Database 2(TM) DB2(R) Data
Entity
IBM Global Name Management IBM Database 2 DB2 Data
Entity
IBM Global Name Reference IBM Database 2 DB2 Data
Encyclopedia Entity
IBM Global Name Scoring IBM Database 2 DB2 Data
Entity
Program name PID Charge unit
number description
IBM Global Name Analytics 5724-Q18 Server
IBM Global Name Management 5724-Q17 Server
IBM Global Name Reference 5724-Q20 Authorized
Encyclopedia user
IBM Global Name Scoring 5724-Q19 Server
Charge metrics definitions
Server
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Authorized user
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Passport Advantage program licenses
IBM Global Name Analytics
Part description Part number IBM Global Name Analytics IBM Global Name Analytics Server E02MCLL ANNUAL SW MAINT RNWL IBM Global Name Analytics Server D58MBLL LIC+SW MAINT 12 MO IBM Global Name Analytics Server D58MCLL SW MAINT REINSTATE 12 MO IBM Global Name Management IBM Global Name Management Global Name Management Srvr fr D58M8LL Global Scoring Srvr TRDUP LIC+SW MAINT 12 MO Global Name Mgt Srvr fr Global D58M9LL Name Analytics Srvr TRDUP LIC+SW MAINT 12 MO IBM Global Name Management E02MALL Server ANNUAL SW MAINT RNWL IBM Global Name Management D58M6LL Server LIC+SW MAINT 12 MO IBM Global Name Management D58M7LL Server SW MAINT REINSTATE 12 MO IBM Global Name Reference Encyclopedia IBM Global Name Reference Encyclopedia IBM Global Name Reference E02M1LL Encyclopedia Auth User ANNUAL SW MAINT RNWL IBM Global Name Reference D58LMLL Encyclopedia Auth User LIC+SW MAINT 12 MO IBM Global Name Reference D58LNLL Encyclopedia Auth User SW MAINT REINSTATE 12 MO IBM Global Name Scoring IBM Global Name Scoring IBM Global Name Scoring Server E02MDLL ANNUAL SW MAINT RNWL IBM Global Name Scoring Server D58MDLL LIC+SW MAINT 12 MO IBM Global Name Scoring Server D58MELL SW MAINT REINSTATE 12 MO
Passport Advantage supply
Part
Program name/description number
Global Name Analytics V2.1.0
Media Pack English US Solaris (Sun Microsystems), AIX BB0QCNA
5L, V5, Linux for x86Series Intel-based servers CD ROM
Digital Disk — ISO 9660 Standard V2.1.0
Global Name Management V2.1.0
Media Pack English US SunOS (Sun Microsystems), AIX 5L, BB0QBNA
V5, Linux for x86Series Intel-based servers CD ROM
Digital Disk — ISO 9660 Standard V2.1.0
Global Name Ref Enc V2.1.0
Media Pack English US Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows BB0QENA
Server 2003, Windows NT™ CD ROM Digital Disk —
ISO 9660 Standard V2.1.0
Global Name Scoring V2.1.0
Media Pack English US SunOS (Sun Microsystems), AIX 5L, BB0QDNA
V5, Linux for x86Series Intel-based servers CD ROM
Digital Disk — ISO 9660 Standard V2.1.0
Passport Advantage customer: Media pack entitlement details
Customers with active maintenance or subscription for the products listed are entitled to receive the corresponding media pack.
Global Name Ref Enc V2.1.0
Entitled maintenance Media packs description Part
offerings description number
IBM Global Name Reference Global Name Ref Enc BB0QENA
Encyclopedia Authorized English US Windows 2000,
User Windows XP, Windows Server
2003, Windows NT CD ROM
Digital Disk — ISO 9660
Standard
Global Name Scoring V2.1.0
IBM Global Name Scoring Global Name Scoring BB0QDNA
Server English US SunOS (Sun
Microsystems), AIX 5L, V5,
Linux for x86Series
Intel-based servers CD ROM
Digital Disk — ISO 9660
Standard
Global Name Analytics V2.1.0
IBM Global Name Analytics Global Name Analytics BB0QCNA
Server English US Solaris (Sun
Microsystems), AIX 5L, V5,
Linux for x86Series
Intel-based servers CD ROM
Digital Disk — ISO 9660
Standard
Global Name Management V2.1.0
IBM Global Name Management Global Name Management BB0QBNA
Server English US SunOS (Sun
Microsystems), AIX 5L, V5,
Linux for x86Series
Intel-based servers CD ROM
Digital Disk — ISO 9660
Standard
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Program name number Form number
IBM Global Name Analytics 5724-Q18 L-JTYY-6NRMUD
IBM Global Name Management 5724-Q17 L-JTYY-6NRMLZ
IBM Global Name Reference 5724-Q20 L-JTYY-6NRMVN
Encyclopedia
IBM Global Name Scoring 5724-Q19 L-JTYY-6NRMV5
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Copy and use on home/portable computer
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IBM Global Name Analytics No
IBM Global Name Management No
IBM Global Name Reference Encyclopedia No
IBM Global Name Scoring No
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