6. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining a similarity metric between the representative word for the proper name component and the at least one representative word for the proper name entry of the database comprises: determining which of the speech recognition candidates is closest to a proper name entry the database on the communication device, the determination based on the disambiguation of each of the representative words for each proper name component in each of the speech recognition candidates when compared to the representative words for the proper name entries of the database.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining a similarity metric between the representative word for the proper name component and the at least one representative word for the proper name entry of the database comprises: determining which of the speech recognition candidates is closest to a proper name entry the database on the communication device, the determination based on the disambiguation of each of the representative words for each proper name component in each of the speech recognition candidates when compared to the representative words for the proper name entries of the database. 7. The method of claim 6 , wherein determining which of the speech recognition candidates is closest to a proper name entry in the database comprises: traversing a lattice comprising the components of each of the speech recognition candidates.