Re: Phoneme based search

In <24qsjtINN871@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> walt@mathcs.emory.edu (Walt Hultgren {rmy}) writes: >In article <1993Aug17.060957.28055@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> >ramesh@miel_020.miel.mot.com (Ramesh Pathak) writes: >> >> I am looking for a phoneme based search for a column in a table. >There are some soundex routines in the ftp archive on mathcs.emory.edu that >people have implemented for use with Informix. There are other instances >of soundex code around the Net. Try archie or gopher. Extending that question though -- does anyone know of any non-soundex phonenic algorithms? I personally think soundex is pathetic and useless. Much too liberal. I've been playing with a modified version of it, using the 'phoneme' program off the net to create a phonetic word, then applying a modified soundex to that (modified as in, playing with the equivalance classes and retaining more than the next three consonants). Thus something like 'Fisher' and 'Phisher' come out equivalent but it also distinguishes Anderson from Andromeda. Surely there must be other algorithms though? I can't believe that soundex is the best there is, especially considering that it predates electronic computers! :-) -- Andrew Burt aburt@du.edu "But if he was dying he wouldn't bother to carve "Aaaaargh", he'd just say it."