Numerous downstream tasks benefit from improved name matching: entity coreference (Strube et al., 2002), name transliteration (Knight and Graehl, 1998), identifying names for mining paraphrases (Barzilay and Lee, 2003), entity linking (Rao et al., 2013) and entity clustering (Green et al., 2012).
there have been numerous proposed name matching methods , with a focus on person names.