I worked for a place that had to parse out user-written addresses. We had a "dirty word file" containing words that we matched for, as an indication that the address was fake. Got some false positives here that needed to be accounted for.
I imagine the department of motor vehicles had some similar parsing. But for new plates, they didn't need to worry about false positives. Police databases though need to keep a wide variety of pseudonyms and multiple social security numbers for individuals. Some of those pseudonyms can be obscene. There seems to be more work to be done in identifying the good guys with the wrong name, so they don't have to go to every airport early because they know they will be pulled over. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
