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Join us on Jan 28 for a webinar on Demystifying Multi-Cultural Name Matching

The media continues to report on the challenges that government intelligence and law enforcement agencies have in identifying and matching a person across many disparate data sources with large amounts of data.

Multi-cultural name matching can be exceptionally difficult and a perfect example of this can be found in the recent Christmas Day terrorist attempt. Failing to integrate and piece together bits of information about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab before he boarded a flight to the U.S. presented him with an opportunity to carry on an explosive device.

Similarly, as Henrik Sørensen describes in a recent blog post, there is so much diversity in how a single place can be designated. Henrik’s example of his home city illustrates the problem exactly – in English, it’s known as Copenhagen, but in:

Danish: København

Swedish: København

German: Kopenhagen

French: Copenhague

Italian: Copenaghen

Latin: Hafnia

This example is limited to just a single place name. What happens when you also take into account differences in individual person names, people with multiple aliases, or those attempting to thwart detection? How can you effectively match data across borders, cultures, languages and other barriers?

Join me on Thursday, Jan 28 for a live webinar, Demystifying Multi-Cultural Name Matching in the Context of Entity Resolution. During this interactive session, I will:

• Discuss challenges and dispel myths associated with multi-cultural entity matching
• Focus on the challenges and approaches to name matching, particularly multi-cultural names and name variations
• Describe Initiate’s approach to name matching
• View how name matching fits within the overall entity matching challenge

Please join me for this session. I look forward to some good conversation after the presentation. If you can't make it on January 28, register anyway and we'll send you a link to the recording.

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