International Business Machines Corporation
System and Method for Partial Name Matching Against Noisy Entities Using Discovered Relationships

Abstract:

A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed to identify a set of entity names based on a partial name of the entity utilizing discovered relationships. A partial name from a user is received as to the entity in order to retrieve a plurality of names of the entity in a corpus which can be a body or works, document, etc. References to the entries containing the partial name are retrieved from the corpus. A natural language processing is applied to content associated with references to identify candidate entities. A similarity is performed as to the identified candidate entities to form a similarity assessment, and from the candidate entities a selection is made based on a merging criteria.