Table 7.

Hidden states for name standardisation currently supported by the Febrl package

Hidden State	Description
titl	Title (Mr, Ms, Dr etc) state
baby	State for baby of, son of or daughter of
knwn	State for known as
andor	State for and or or
gname1	First given name state
gname2	Second given name state
ghyph	Given name hyphen state
gopbr	Given name opening bracket or quote state
gclbr	Given name closing bracket or quote state
agname1	First alternative given name state
agname2	Second alternative given name state
coma	State for commas, semi-colons etc
sname1	First surname state
sname2	Second surname state
shyph	Surname hyphen state
sopbr	Surname opening bracket or quote state
sclbr	Surname closing bracket or quote state
asname1	First alternative surname state
asname2	Second alternative surname state
pref1	First name prefix state
pref2	Second name prefix state
rubb	State for residual elements