[okfn-labs] Find country names in blobs of unknown text

Sun Jun 15 13:03:38 UTC 2014

I suppose I could keep working on it, but I'm kind of done with it for the present project.
http://small.dada.pink/match-companies/reconcile.py

Does anyone else want something better? If not, I'm inclined to wait until someone asks for better.

On June 13, 2014 1:04:30 PM EDT, Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich at pudo.org> wrote:
>On that note: http://opennames.org/datasets/iso-countries 
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>- Friedrich 
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>On 13 Jun 2014, at 19:03, Michael Bauer <michael.bauer at okfn.org> wrote:
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>> Thomas,
>> 
>> Could you use Opennames (hrm. Nomenklatura) for something like this?
>> 
>> e.g. add in the ISO country list and then work on alternate
>spellings?
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 11:54:28AM -0400, Thomas Levine wrote:
>>> I'm looking for a function or regular expression that finds country
>names in blobs of text.
>>> This can just be something that does a bunch of exact string matches
>so that it doesn't matter
>>> whether the source blob (company names in my case) is spelled "Aecom
>New Zealand Limited",
>>> "Aecom (New Zealand)", "Aecom, New Zealand", or "New Zealand". Has
>someone released something
>>> like this?
>>> 
>>> If I don't see an answer soon, I'm going to write a regular
>expression that matches with a
>>> bunch of country names from some country name dataset.
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