Computer recognition of Sanskrit-based Indian names

An interesting problem relating to human cognition-oriented tasks is the name-recognition problem. Humans are so apt in performing this task that they hardly realize the difficulties involved in it. Formally, name recognition means identifying the native origin of people from their names. A subproblem of this task is to classify whether a name belongs to one´s own country or not. The authors analyze and then formalize the procedure followed by humans to perform this task. An expert system for recognizing names of persons of Indian origin is described. The system is based on the phonetic information contained in the name, which in turn depends on the language of the corresponding country