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<Paper uid="W97-0315">
  <Title>Name Searching and Information Retrieval</Title>
  <Section position="7" start_page="137" end_page="138" type="concl">
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6 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper has discussed name searching in the context of ranked information retrieval. It has been argued that while the techniques of name recognition and matching used in database searching and in information extraction can be adapted to the text retrieval problem, that the retrieval application is sufficiently different from beth of the other two applications as to require very different approaches. Existing research or commercial software  can be used as parts of an overall approach to name searching, but there are major adaptations that need to be made and gaps in the architecture to be filled, such as how to recognize names effectively in user queries. Once an effective approach for name searching has been developed, there should be large benefits, especially for business areas, such as newspaper databases, where a large proportion of queries contain personal, company, product, or other names.</Paragraph>
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