name-variant-search
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A tool for searching common variations of a human name
Name Variant Search Tool
https://bellingcat.github.io/name-variant-search/
Motivation
When researching an individual online, it is useful to search not only for their full legal name but also for many variants. This can become tedious and time consuming for the researcher and could be streamlined.
Goal
Given a person's name, generate various plausible alternative forms of the name and streamline the work of researching each one.
Generating variants
Generating variants is handled by the node module alias-generator
TextGain's language ID api may be useful when deciding which culturally-specific variants to include: https://apiv2.textgain.com/redoc#tag/Identification/operation/language_identification_language_post