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Download the replay of "Demystifying Multi-Cultural Name Matching"

Our January 28 webinar, “Demystifying Multi-Cultural Name Matching in the Context of Entity Resolution,” drew quite a crowd, with attendees from various government agencies, systems integrators and consultants specializing in data quality and data governance issues.

As recent events have reminded us, multi-cultural name matching can be exceptionally difficult. Failing to integrate and piece together bits of information about a person of interest can have tragic results.

Similarly, 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?

Download the replay now and listen as Scott Schumacher, PhD, Initiate’s Chief Scientist, discusses:

• Challenges and myths associated with multi-cultural entity matching
• Approaches to name matching, particularly multi-cultural names and name variations
• Initiate’s approach to name matching
• How name matching fits within the overall entity matching challenge

The presentation was followed by a lively Q&A session, in which Dr. Schumacher answered several questions from attendees on a variety of topics, including:

• How to avoid transliteration mix-ups
• Managing name changes (such as those due to marriage)
• The role of data collection
• The algorithms behind name matching
• Identifying ethnicity to create culturally appropriate matching rules
• How multi-cultural name matching applies to unstructured data

Download the recording now for the full presentation and slides.