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Lingua-EN-MatchNames (Score:1)

by brianiac (4158) on 2004.03.24 11:55 (#29628) Journal

This doesn't help with addresses, but I created the Lingua-EN-MatchNames module to eliminate duplicate user records between security and groupware databases a few years ago, and it worked quite well.

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- Re:Lingua-EN-MatchNames (Score:1)
  
  by malbh (4944)
  
  Thanks Brian,
  Yes, I looked at it, as well as the excellent modules Lingua:EN:NameParse and Lingua::EN::AddressParse by Kim Ryan. I plan to use them once I get to the blocking window level of matches.
  The problem, of course, is that when you have many millions of records, the turn around time for a really close look at each record just gets too large. So what I think I need to do is determine how to split the records for large datasets into groups that can be compared in an economical amount of time (the

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