Full name matching

[intuit]

Full name matching

[manishobhatia]

Hi,
With this library you can apply a weight to an Element but not a Token as such. If the order of names is guaranteed , you can split the names into multiple element and give wight to the middle initial.

In practice though many times the data might not be as clean and we can see issues like First name appear at the end in the full name, and other such combinations. This library that into account and does a reasonable match, and you should still see a good score no matter

The scoring works in this fashion consider names First Last and First Middle1 Last Here there are 3 unique tokens (First, Last and Middle1) out of these 2 are similar (First and Last) so you will get a score of 2/3 or 0.67
If the order of the names is not the same, you will still see the same result

In cases where First Middle1 Last is matched with First Middle1 Last you will see a score of 1.0 since all of them match perfectly.

I would suggest you run this library against your dataset and let us know if you see any issue. I am not aware of any open issues that will impact Name matches

Hope this help

Manish

[manishobhatia]

Closing the issue, feel free to open it, if you think its not resolved or you have further questions