similar to: Metaphone analysis

does anyone know if there is an implementation of the double metaphone algorithm available in ruby? google searching turns up very little of interest. if not, i''d be happy to port the jakarta commons version and make it available. cheers, paul

Hello! I'm Shubham Sharma, a 3rd year Information Systems student at BITS Pilani, and I'd like to explore the possibilities of a GSOC Project that would aim at improving the tolerant retrieval capabilities via *phonetic* correction(: misspellings that arise because the user types a query that sounds like the target term. ) I did find spelling correction via edit distance in

Hi there, I''d like to be able to tune the results of a Fuzzy search in a rails application. I''ve tried setting the following in my environment.rb file. Ferret::Search::FuzzyQuery.default_min_similarity = 0.75 Ferret::Search::FuzzyQuery.default_prefix_length = 2 When I go into the console, I can see those values as the default but when I run a search like

I want to correct spelling errors automatically. I have used search in the past where I can pass an argument through standard search to correct a word with up to 2 spelling errors for example or do the more Google like "Did ya mean?". In this case I just want to change it automatically and search. I am not too interested in specifying the number of characters it is out by. What is

Hey Xapian guyz, This is my list set of ideas and overview of my analysis I have done on some other ideas I felt should be discussed. Please provide me some comments and suggestions to make it better before the application process starts. Here is the link: Idea Log <http://goo.gl/GjCcA> Thank you, Prasad Prabhu Masters Student SUNY STONY BROOK NY Follow Me on: Twitter

Hi, I''ve got a question about FuzzyQueries. Say I''m doing a search for people by name, and I want to allow fuzzy results if there aren''t enough hits with a regular query. This is easy enough; just redo the search with the fuzzy query if original_results.total_hits is less than some threshold. However, I would like the exact-match results to have a higher score

I am trying to build up a filtered search using the logic below. bq = Ferret::Search::BooleanQuery.new bq.add_query(Ferret::Search::TermQuery.new(Ferret::Index::Term.new("section",section.downcase!)), Ferret::Search::BooleanClause::Occur::MUST) filter = Ferret::Search::QueryFilter.new(bq) @vobjects = VoObject.find_by_contents(search_input,:filter => filter, :sort

Hello, My Ferret integration has gone quite well. I''m now returning all the results I need from two models using "id_multi_search" and combining the results in the view using a couple of partials. Is there any way that I can turn on fuzzy searching? Would fuzzy searching pick up basic spelling mistakes such as "Bnadit" instead of "Bandit" my experience

This may be offtopic to Rails, but what are people doing to find records based on fuzzy string matches? For example, if you wanted to find a Person with name "David Heinemeier Hansson" but searched using the string "Dave Hansson". Currently I am find_by_sql that calls the PostgreSQL function "levenshtein(string1, string2)" which returns results with a score

Hello, does anybody know how to implement a "Did you mean ...?" like Google with act_as_ferret? I think this is a possible way: 1. Generate a keyword-list (this is my difficulty. I don''t know how to build such a list from the index) with no stop-words from the first index. e. g. (car, ship, plant, house) 2. Build a second index from this word-list where we store the word in

Hello all, I am new to the list, but I have been using ferret for a little bit already. I would first like to thank Dave for all his work on ferret. I had a few questions that I haven''t been able to figure out after messing around with ferret and going through the documentation. StemFilter ------ I am trying to improve the quality of my searches in context of the content of my

One of the items on the ToDo list for version 1.0 at http://wiki.xapian.org/TodoFor1_2e0#preview is: "Rework Omega's indextext.cc as a xapian-core "TextSplitter" class." I've been wondering about this for a while now. Currently, we have the Query Parser in Xapian core, but no text processing. Clearly, it makes sense to have a "text splitter" class in

I''ve been trying to implement acts_as_ferret in my latest project and ran into a snag. If I do a search for ''auditor state'' then the search works perfectly. If I include a stop word, as in ''auditor of state'', then I get no results. I''d prefer not to set stop words to nil and index everything. The solution, that I have yet to attempt, is to use

Hi All, I''m using Backgroundrb as a general purpose long-running-task back-end (upload processing, email sending, etc), and it''s been a great solution. However I''ve recently run into some some intermittent connection issues that have me baffled. I''m running on apache2/fcgid and the problem occurs in both devlopment and production mode. The problem seems to

Hi Folks, I'm interested in looking (in a beginner's amateurish way) at prosodic/phonetic analysis of recorded speech. In particular I would want to use R to formulate and evaluate specific models. So I would like to ask R people for their recommendations for a program which would a) Take as input a sound file in one of the common formats (".wav", ".au") b)

Hi all, I would like to add phonetic symbols in my figures. Usually I typeset my documents in LaTeX and I use the tipa [1] package to get International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) fonts. So, my problem would be solved if I could insert LaTeX commands in the text() function (I guess at least). I would like to avoid using psfrag (that is, inserting a string in the eps figure and then substituting it

Guys Im having a few issues with Languages. Ive setup the english language is it came from default: /var/log/asterisk/sounds /var/log/asterisk/sounds/phonetic /var/log/asterisk/sounds/digit /var/log/asterisk/sounds/letters and then Spanish as /var/log/asterisk/sounds/sp /var/log/asterisk/sounds/sp/phonetic /var/log/asterisk/sounds/sp/digit /var/log/asterisk/sounds/sp/letters Then one of

Hi there, today I made the German language prompts available for download: http://www.karl.aegee.org/asterisk.nsf/HT/sound-de Be aware: Asterisk doesn't yet fully support languages other than English, there are still (smaller) issues with voicemail and date/time announcements that require a patch. Cheers, Philipp

hi, after doing a make world yesterday, I got the following error when trying to load the bg.phonetic.ctrlcaps keymap that I use: % kbdcontrol -l bg.phonetic.ctrlcaps kbdcontrol: invalid key definition % I checked the file (not knowing what else to do) and couldn't find anything wrong with it. does anyone have any ideas? ps: when loading the pl_PL.ISO8859-2 keymap, I get the same error.

Hi, http://www.vorbis.com/faq/#mean points to http://www.xiph.org/xiphname.html, which is dead. The actual content is at http://www.xiph.org/xiphname.shtml The Xiph names page seems to be in UTF-8, but its meta tag mentions ISO 8859-15, which can cause problems with raw characters for the pronunciations. I propose the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet. How about [?g]/[?g] for Ogg and