On 08/11/2012 16:55, David Sewell wrote:
An amusing (and enlightening) discussion of the complexity of machine
processing of personal names:
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
(Getting a bit 0ff-topic here, but...)
Thanks for this link, I loved it! And as another illustration of the
complexities of names, this article appeared a few days ago:
"Accounts merged after name mix-up by Prudential"
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20221648)
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John English
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