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by phkahler 5y ago
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Soundex is a rough phonetic "spelling" used for such things. It's also something I never see mentioned.
- eloff 5y agoIt's also pretty simple, I'm sure there are much better options readily available as libraries these days.
- ok123456 5y agoSoundex was designed as a way to index last names before computers. It's primary benefit it that it's designed to do by hand. It performs pretty lousy as a general purpose natural language hashing scheme. The precision and recall is too bad to use as a spell checker.