soundex Questions

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The US census bureau uses a special encoding called “soundex” to locate information about a person. The soundex is an encoding of surnames (last names) based on the way a surname sounds rather than...
Accretion asked 13/10, 2009 at 19:31

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I've been studying soundex, metaphone and other string search techniques the past few days, and in my understanding both algorithms work well in handling non-English words transliterated to English...
Cloyd asked 14/9, 2009 at 5:55

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Can anyone suggest me on what data structure to use for a soundex algorithm program? The language to be used is Java. If anybody has worked on this before in Java. The program should have these fea...
Elevon asked 6/11, 2008 at 23:28

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E.g. the Soundex algorithm is optimized for English. Is there a more universal algorithm that would apply across large families of languages?
Hulsey asked 24/9, 2008 at 14:42

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As per this comment in a related thread, I'd like to know why Levenshtein distance based methods are better than Soundex.
Female asked 3/9, 2008 at 16:4

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