IBM InfoSphere Global Name Recognition (GNR) V4.1 delivers major enhancements for business name searching as well as enhances personal name analysis and searching capabilities. Enhancements for business names: Recognition and scoring of digits, special characters, business legal terms, and professional qualifiers Recognition and special scoring of stop words and other non-searchable terms Coverage of variable spacing in acronyms and legal terms Handling of abbreviations and variant forms Differentiating personal names from organizational names Utilizing type-specific matching strategies and cross-category matching Improving business name search performance Adds phonetic matching for personal names in the Chinese, French, Hispanic, and Korean languages, in addition to the previously supported Anglo, Arabic, German, Russian, Thai, and Indian languages Includes globalization support for French, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, and Arabic, in addition to English Includes improved personal name performance and memory management Includes increased NameWorks functionality in handling name objects and pair-wise strategy overrides.