[rules-dev] soundslike: report on phonetic matching

[Wolfgang Laun]

On 15 October 2010 15:22, jschmied <nabble at juergenschmied.de> wrote:

>
> Hi!
>
> I have way better results with DoubleMetaphone. It's available in apache
> commons codec.
>

Indeed, although testing for 100 different contexts of the letter 'C' alone
sounds quite heavy.


>
> You need a two step approach:
>
> First select the canidates with phonetic keys (Soundex/DoubleMetaphone)
> Then filter all canidates with the original search value with something
> like
> JaroWinkler and a defined threshold.
>

But the "soundslike" operator in Drools is a binary relational operator. I
cannot relate your two-step approach to that. Drools currently has no
intent of exposing the word-to-key algorithm. But who knows - if there's
good cause...

-W


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