pat@tifsie (12/10/85)
>I am interested in obtaining public domain "phonetic search/Soundex" >algorithms (actual code is preferable). Any help is welcome. Somewhere in the back of my cluttered mind, I seem to remember that the National Bureau of Standards published that algorithm several years ago. I don't know the exact document, but I do remember finding it in the government documents section of the university library. That was about 3 years ago.
brian@sdcsvax.UUCP (Brian Kantor) (12/17/85)
>I am interested in obtaining public domain "phonetic search/Soundex" >algorithms (actual code is preferable). Any help is welcome. Donald Knuth's "The Art of Programming, Vol 3: Searching and Sorting" contains a good explanation of the algorithm, which is easy to implement. I've used it on a number of systems, including a check-approval lookup system. SOUNDEX gets a number of false hits, since it collapses the range of the data. Where I've found it most useful is in partial matches on human names when no exact match is found - it is good for presenting a list of possible candidates for further selection. Brian Kantor UCSD Office of Academic Computing Academic Network Operations Group UCSD B-028, La Jolla, CA 92093 (619) 452-6865 decvax\ brian@ucsd.arpa ihnp4 >--- sdcsvax --- brian ucbvax/ Kantor@Nosc