rcsmith@anagld.analytics.com (Ray Smith) (11/30/90)
tomr@ashtate.A-T.COM (Tom Rombouts) writes: >My e-mail bounced, hope you read this. The December 1990 issue of >"Computer Language" features an article titled "Hanging on the >Metaphone" that presents a (fairly lengthy) phonetic matching >algorithm that claims to be better than the classic soundex. >The author is Lawrence Phillips, and the article starts on page 39. >Tom Rombouts Torrance Techie tomr@ashtate.A-T.com V:(213)538-7108 I read the referenced article and I am interested in trying this algorithm out as a replacement to a Soundex system we are using in a full-text retrieval system. Since we don't have Pick BASIC I was wondering if anyone has already converted it to C or should I make it my weekend project? -Ray -- Ray Smith | Analytics, Inc. rcsmith@analytics.com | 9891 Broken Land Parkway {uunet,aplcen,wb3ffv,sundc}!anagld!rcsmith | Columbia, MD 21046 RCSmith@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL | 301-381-4300