Re: [ossig] Any software : (person's name) -> (cultural information)

["S.M.Sabri S.M.Ismail" <sms@sabre23t.com>]

From: "Imran William Smith" <iwsmith@mimos.my> wrote:
> The aim would be to take a name (and possibly an email address)
> and try to output some cultural information.
[...]
> "John Smith" -> probably European / Western.
>               -> male
>               -> formal method of address is "Dear Mr Smith"
>               -> informal method of address is "Dear John"
> "Nah Soo Hoe" -> probably Chinese
>                -> male
>                -> formal method of address is "Dear Nah Soo Hoe"
>                   (I don't know that for sure!)
>                -> informal method of address is "Dear Soo Hoe"
> "Imran William Smith"
>                -> conflict between European / Western and
>                   Islamic / Middle Eastern.
>                -> male

Assm WR WB, Imran

This looks to me a good application for CBR (Case Based Reasoning) type of AI
software. Try looking at
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Artificial_Intelligence/Machine_Lea
rning/Case-Based_Reasoning/ .

> Ideally it would be something like a PHP library on top
> of MySQL (since those are my technical skills).  Or perhaps
> pure PHP, for easier deployment (i.e. long hardcoded lists
> of names etc).

My brief look didn't net me any Open Source CBR PHP software. Though this
http://www.ai-cbr.org/tools.html do provide a listing of commercial and
freeware CBR software. It also says ...

"If you are planning to develop a CBR system you may find some useful help in
the Case-Based Reasoning Product Experience Base (CBR-PEB) [
http://demolab.iese.fhg.de:8080/ ] " that says it is "a decision support
system for Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) system development (i.e., CBR
applications and CBR tools). "

BTW, since this is my first posting here, hi everyone. ;-)

wassalam,
S.M.Sabri S.M.Ismail (SMS), Senior Manager
Integrated System Development & Management Information System
PUTRA O&E Division, Syarikat Prasarana Negara Berhad (SPNB)
Tel: 03-76258228 ext 2040, 019-3196855
Email: sms@sabre23t.com, issabri@putralrt.com.my
Other email: sabre23t@yahoo.com (web), sabre@sabri.pc.my (uucp)
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