Entity Name Variant Generator

A non-transitory computer program product storing instructions, which when executed by at least one data processor of at least one computing system, result in operations comprising:

• receiving data comprising an entity name;
• first determining whether there are any punctuation variations for the entity name;
• second determining, by at least one data processor, whether there is at least one character to drop from the entity by:
• tokenizing the entity name, and
• tagging at least one resulting token with a corresponding part of speech selected from a group consisting of:
• verbs, nouns, adjectives, proper names, and conjunctions,
• wherein no portions of the entity name are dropped if a number of tokens is below a certain threshold and there are no tagged tokens corresponding to a proper name;
• third determining whether there are alternative equivalents of at least a portion of the entity name;
• and
• generating a plurality of variants for the entity name based on a combination of the first determining, the second determining, and the third determining.

A system comprising:

• at least one data processor;
• and
• memory storing instructions, which when executed by the at least one data processor, result in operations comprising:
• receiving data comprising an entity name;
• first determining whether there are any punctuation variations for the entity name;
• second determining, by at least one data processor, whether there is at least one character to drop from the entity by:
• tokenizing the entity name, and
• tagging at least one resulting token with a corresponding part of speech selected from a group consisting of:
• verbs, nouns, adjectives, proper names, and conjunctions,
• wherein no portions of the entity name are dropped if a number of tokens is below a certain threshold and there are no tagged tokens corresponding to a proper name;
• third determining whether there are alternative equivalents of at least a portion of the entity name;
• and
• generating a plurality of variants for the entity name based on a combination of the first determining, the second determining, and the third determining.