Hello - I am writing to inquire if anyone has any interest in adding a Double Metaphone implementation to the Commons Codec project. To my knowlege there is not an implementation of this in your latest release, and the archive is down so I have no idea if someone else already proposed it.
Double Metaphone is an enhancement to the orginal Metaphone algorithm (already included with the Codec project). It is by the author of the original Metaphone algorithm, Lawrence Philips. For his orginal article on the algorithm see http://www.cuj.com/documents/s=8038/cuj0006philips/. I needed to create an implementation in Java and was unable to find a bug-free implementation, so I created my own based from Lawrence Philips' original C++ code (available at ftp://ftp.cuj.com/pub/2000/1806/philips.zip). Since there are no reference implementations or test suites, I have done my best to make sure that my implemenation complies with other implementations available for other languages. If there is an interest in adding the Double Metaphone algorithm, I will see about donating the source (it is currently the property of my employer, but I suspect that there will be little resistance to the donation). Regards, Ben Walstrum __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
