A few more google searches will probably turn up some reasonable lists
of abbreviation rules or lists for common names - I found this right away:
(google cache link that converts pdf to html)
http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:dh7HGiQ-G4wJ:immigrants.byu.edu/Downloads/BritishNames.pdf+common+name+abbreviations&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=5
With a table such as this, you could write a tokenizer that would inject
the abbreviated form of common names into your index in addition to the
default form.
Or, you could index them in as an alternate field, then you would have
more control at query time whether or not you wanted to match on
abbreviations.
Dan
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Daniel Armbrust
Biomedical Informatics
Mayo Clinic Rochester
daniel.armbrust(at)mayo.edu
http://informatics.mayo.edu/
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