Name Matching in Law Enforcement and Counter-Terrorism
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Name matching is an important task in law enforcement and counter-terrorism. This paper briefly describes the nature of the name-matching task, enumerates typical name-matching applications, explains the technical challenges posed by namematching, and sets forth several important approaches to these technical challenges. 1. THE NAME-MATCHING TASK Name matching is the task of recognizing when two different strings denote the same person or other named entity. Name matching is an instance of the general task of approximate string matching, a task that also arises in spell correcting [Pet80], database maintenance [NKAJ59], signal processing, text retrieval, data mining, image compression, and many other areas [Nav01]. Approximate string matching is particularly important in computational biology. For example, base-sequence similarity in genomes is an accurate measure of phylogenetic distance [SM97, Gus99]. The general task of name matching is as follows:
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