Re: Using a Soundex category...
Re: Using a Soundex category...
- Subject: Re: Using a Soundex category...
- From: "Eric E. Dolecki" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:40:50 -0400
Funny - I bolted in a Metaphone2 class I found online eariler. Face becomes
fs and place becomes pls.
Then Levenstein comes pretty close.
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On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Scott Ribe <email@hidden>wrote:
> On Jul 6, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote:
>
> > It would seem something is off to get negatives on Place, Ace & Mace.
>
> That's Soundex. First character is matched literally.
>
> You might want to look at Metaphone, rather than using an algorithm that
> was designed in the 19th century for calculation by hand by census takers
> ;-)
>
> Although it too will give you negatives on place, ace & mace because those
> do not really sound like "face" at all. "Rhymes with" is a rather low
> threshold for "sounds like"--first consonant is very important, and it seems
> highly unlikely that someone would think they heard "place" when "face" was
> spoken to them.
>
> Personally, I use Metaphone to find similar strings, then modified
> Levenshtein to rank them.
>
> --
> Scott Ribe
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