On 11/7/06 3:26 PM, "Mike Klaas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is the state of the art in phonetic token generation reasonable? I've > been rather disappointed with some implementations (eg. SOUNDEX in > MySQL, MSSQL). SOUNDEX is excellent technology for its time, but its time was 1920. Double Metaphone is far more complex and works fairly well. There is an Apache commons codec implementation available. It is certainly good enough for matching proper names, like Moody and Mudie or Cathy and Kathie. There are some commercial phonetic coders, but I don't have any experience with those. wunder -- Walter Underwood Search Guru, Netflix
