Similarity Based Naming System Using Name Matching Method

Abstract

Names are the most important as they are used in many process, such as identifying of people. Names are stored within large information system includes government, medical, educational, and even commercial records which are kept about individuals. Each culture has a set of names as well as a rage of permitted variations in its naming system. This paper involves names used for identifying culture, relation, race and nationality of Shan name. Name of Shan are divided into thirty three kinds of culture for different groups. There has been the different of relations name slightly. This paper develops for this different relational name in Shan cultures. This paper discusses the characteristics of personal names and presents potential sources of variations and errors. Names are many elements of personal names which vary in and between the different cultures. This paper uses name matching method of Levenshtein Distance algorithm.