Automated document analysis comprising company name recognition

An apparatus comprising

• at least one processing device;
• and
• memory operatively connected to the at least one processing device, the memory comprising executable instructions that when executed by the at least one processing device cause the at least one processing device to:
• identify, by at least two company name recognition techniques and based at least in part on a company identifier list, at least one company name occurrence in a body of text, wherein each of the at least two company name recognition techniques are different from each other;
• update the identified companies name list based on the at least one company name occurrence to provide an updated company identifier list;
• and
• subsequent to updating the company identifier list, identify, by the at least two company name recognition techniques and based on the updated company identifier list, at least one additional company name occurrence in the body of text.

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising executable instructions that when executed by at least one processing device cause the at least one processing device to perform automated document analysis of a document comprising a body of text in which the at least one processing device is caused to:

• identify, by at least two company name recognition techniques and based at least in part on a company identifier list, at least one company name occurrence in the body of text, wherein each of the at least two company name recognition techniques are different from each other;
• update the identified companies name list based on the at least one company name occurrence to provide an updated company identifier list;
• and
• subsequent to updating the company identifier list, identify, by the at least two company name recognition techniques and based on the updated company identifier list, at least one additional company name occurrence in the body of text.