Derek Gulbranson

Thanks for all the info. I studied Arabic for many years so I'm familiar with some of this, but I hadn't gotten all that detail. For "Mohamad Zein El Dine",...

You are correct, this parser does not parse Chinese names correctly. I know very little about Chinese names, but as far as I can tell from your description Chinese names...

One idea but it's probably not a good one. We could potentially introduce a parameter that made the initial list (of words split on spaces) to be reversed before it...

Can you clarify what the correct output should be for those names?

How do Russian speakers know which is first vs last name? Is there an order that would be most common if a person wanted to try to get a computer...

Thanks for all that info. The Wikipedia page was really interesting, I had no idea Russian names had all that history. It does sound like looking for suffixes could help...

Just to clarify for me, does patronymic always indicate last name? The _list of names_ strategy could be interesting, assuming we could somehow come up with that list. But now...

I think the problem with these is that they are all titles that could also be first names, possibly with the exception of "Major". We do have the abbreviation "maj"...

The parser does not use a database of first or last names. First and last names are determined only by position in the string. The only datasets included with the...

This seems like a good idea and not too hard to do.