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2006 Nov 25
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Metaphone analysis
...ther a
Rails/Ferret based restful dictionary. So I finally got a chance to get
started today so the first thing I wanted to do was implement a metaphone
analyzer and filter.
Some links for more info on the metaphone algorithms:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Metaphone
The jist of it is that it breaks words down into its phonetic parts. For
example, the word ''cool'' and ''kewl'' both become ''KL'' in the double-metaphone
algorithm. Indexing dictionary words in this manner is almost essential so
that users can...