System for distinguishing names of organizations in Asian writing systems

A process for distinguishing the name of an organization appearing in a phrase or sentence in Chinese, the process comprising:

• (a) establishing data including at least one group of terms comprising indicators that tend to indicate that a term immediately following an indicator is the first term of the name and of an organization, and another group of terms comprising terms frequently used to form the last terms of the names of organizations in Chinese;
• (b) identifying in the Chinese phrase or sentence terms corresponding to the data;
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• (c) comparing the location in the Chinese text of each identified term from the another group to identified terms from the one group and if predefined conditions are met, determining that the identified term from the another group forms the name of an organization together with text immediately preceding the identified term up to, but not including, an identified term from the one group.

A product for distinguishing names of organizations in a phrase or sentence in Chinese input to a computer, the product comprising a recording medium having computer readable data and program logic recorded thereon, the computer data including at least one group of terms comprising proper nouns, and another group of terms comprising terms frequently used to form the last terms of the names of organizations in Chinese, the program logic when executed by the computer, causing the computer to perform processing including:

• (a) identifying terms in a Chinese phrase or sentence that has been input to the computer for terms corresponding to those in the groups in the data;
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• (b) comparing the location in the Chinese phrase or sentence of each identified term from the another group to identified terms from the one group and if predefined conditions are met, determining that the identified term from the another group forms the name of an organization with an identified term from the one group;
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• (c) outputting results.