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Topic: Documentation on Transformers

Topic by
lister171254

2011-12-04
04:22

Documentation on Transformers

Is there any documentation on the transformers. I'm, trying to convert our firstnames (combination of upper/lower characters) into firstnames with a leading uppercase. I'm using the name standardizer but am not sure if this is the correct transformer for this. I also try to figure out why it works for most name strings, but not for strings with all Uppercase (it leaves them all uppercase) and it does not convert names with non-alphbetic characters (i.e. Choong-San is not converted at all and is blank after the conversion)

Thanks

Reply by
kasper

2011-12-05
04:25
Hi,

What you are describing is a combination of quite a lot of operations. The only thing that the Name Standardizer does is look for a series of patterns (which you can configure in the tab) and if it matches with any of the patterns, it standardizes the resulting name part tokens. But the Name Standardizer does not do anything like case-conversion of actual checking of the names are valid.

To do that you will need something a lot more advanced. Actually we have that ready here at Human Inference, and it will be released together with DataCleaner 2.4 in the coming weeks. If you're interested in testing it, we could arrange that?

If so, please send me an email:
kasper.sorensen [at] humaninference.com

Cheers

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