Funny - I bolted in a Metaphone2 class I found online eariler. Face becomes fs and place becomes pls.
Then Levenstein comes pretty close. Thanks! Google Voice: (508) 656-0622 Twitter: eric_dolecki XBoxLive: edolecki PSN: eric_dolecki http://blog.ericd.net On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Scott Ribe <scott_r...@elevated-dev.com>wrote: > On Jul 6, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: > > > It would seem something is off to get negatives on Place, Ace & Mace. > > That's Soundex. First character is matched literally. > > You might want to look at Metaphone, rather than using an algorithm that > was designed in the 19th century for calculation by hand by census takers > ;-) > > Although it too will give you negatives on place, ace & mace because those > do not really sound like "face" at all. "Rhymes with" is a rather low > threshold for "sounds like"--first consonant is very important, and it seems > highly unlikely that someone would think they heard "place" when "face" was > spoken to them. > > Personally, I use Metaphone to find similar strings, then modified > Levenshtein to rank them. > > -- > Scott Ribe > scott_r...@elevated-dev.com > http://www.elevated-dev.com/ > (303) 722-0567 voice > > > > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
