Re: Using a Soundex category...
Re: Using a Soundex category...
- Subject: Re: Using a Soundex category...
- From: Douglas Davidson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 11:30:12 -0700
On Jul 6, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote:
> I found a Soundex NSString category here:
>
> http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?NSStringSoundex
>
> However, when I tried it out I get strange results...
>
> //someString is set to different strings each time tested
> BOOL test = [someString soundsLikeString:@"Face"];
> NSLog(@"sounds like Face: %d",test);
>
> Place = 0
> Ace = 0
> Mace = 0
> Fake = 1
> Testing = 0
> Brake = 0
>
> It would seem something is off to get negatives on Place, Ace & Mace.
>
> Any ideas or perhaps a different Soundex implementation I could try? I
> am already using Levenstein distance, but on it's own it's not good
> enough.
Those results sound perfectly reasonable based on the versions of Soundex that I have seen. Perhaps you are looking for something different?
Douglas Davidson
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