INFORMATION TYPE IDENTIFICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, E.G. FOR MUSIC FILE NAME CONTENT IDENTIFICATION

The method serves to automatically identify in a set of data sequences at least one specific type of information contained in each data sequence of the set, wherein the type of information has an unknown presentation in the data sequences. It comprises the steps of:initially defining at least one characteristic feature of the specific type of information, and of expressing the characteristic feature(s) in terms of at least one recognition rule executable by processor means (2),applying the recognition rule(s) through the processor means to analyze the set of data sequences,determining in each data sequence a data portion thereof satisfying the recognition rule(s), andidentifying the data portion as corresponding to the specific type of information.The invention can be used notably for automatically processing the contents of music file names, where the data sequence corresponds to the characters for a music file, and the specific information types are an artist name and/or music title contained in some arbitrary form and order in the file name.