SYSTEM FOR DISTINGUISHING NAMES OF ORGANIZATIONS IN ASIAN WRITING SYSTEMS

A system for distinguishing names of organizations in Chinese text, which includes a computer. The computer has at least an input, an output, a processor, and a memory and storage arrangement. Data is accessible by the processor that includes at least two groups of terms that frequently respectively form the first and last terms of the names of organizations in Chinese. The system includes software, which when performed by the computer causes computer processing including identifying terms in Chinese text that has been input to the computer for terms corresponding to those in the groups in the data; comparing the location in the Chinese text of each identified term from one of the groups to identified terms from the other group, and if predefined conditions are met, determining that the identified term from one group forms the name of an organization with an identified term from the other group.