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Group similar or same Proper Name #371

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Would like a way to group Proper Names / Nouns, especially people, such as:
  William - Bill

This is similar to issue, 174 Anonymise Names, which is also an excellent idea, 
especially if need to re-expose the data after doing analysis.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by horn...@gmail.com on 27 Apr 2011 at 1:53

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
There are many ways to group similar cells, names, columnar data in Refine.  
Please email our mailing list (mentioned in the wiki) when you have questions, 
and we'll be glad to answer them there.  And you'll probably learn a few tricks 
from the community in doing so !, instead of hearing back only from the 
developers.  Closing this issue as INVALID for now.

Original comment by thadguidry on 27 Apr 2011 at 2:00

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Grouping by alias cluster or name normalization don't seem like completely out 
of bounds requests to me, but they would require an external database (culture 
specific in the case of personal names) of aliases and nicknames.

I'll leave this open pending further discussion, but I would second Thad's 
suggestion that you'll get better feedback by using the email list where a 
larger community can contribute ideas.

Original comment by tfmorris on 27 Apr 2011 at 4:43