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From: rcsmith@anagld.analytics.com (Ray Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Metaphone (Was: Wanted: soundex algorithm, if possible sources)
Keywords: soundex
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Date: 30 Nov 90 12:49:02 GMT
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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
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