Are there any well known algorithms to detect the presence of names?

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Published on 2010-05-30T01:36:32Z Indexed on 2010/05/30 1:42 UTC
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For example, given a string:

"Bob went fishing with his friend Jim Smith."

Bob and Jim Smith are both names, but bob and smith are both words. Weren't for them being uppercase, there would be less indication of this outside of our knowledge of the sentence. Without doing grammar analysis, are there any well known algorithms for detecting the presence of names, at least Western names?

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