Multilingual Names Database Searching Enhancement

Abstract

In this paper some aspects are presented for multilingual names database searching enhancement. They should help to find some balance between the execution time and the relevance of the results obtained. Structured form of the information used, two different structures of the database and a general algorithm for the searching are suggested. As experimental results investigation of the groupings of the most popular Romanized Bulgarian own names produced by the Soundex and Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex (D-M Soundex) algorithms are given. Then conclusion is made for their applicability.