You are welcome. I hope you find it useful.

Ron

_____

From: Rob Rothwell [mailto:r.j.rothwell@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 11:15 AM To: Ron@usmedrec.com Cc: A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questionsabout Squeak.; announcements@lists.squeakfoundation.org; The general-purpose Squeak developers list Subject: Re: SoundsLike package released on SqueakSource

Thanks!

Rob

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Ron Teitelbaum Ron@usmedrec.com wrote:

Hello all,

I have released a new package on SqueakSource that contains SoundEx and DoubleMetaphone.

http://www.squeaksource.com/SoundsLike.html

This package adds soundsLike: to string

'titlebalm' soundsLike: 'teitelbaum'

You can also get the phenoticStringsFor: a word to store in a database for later queries.

PhoneticStringComparator defaultClass "SoundEx" new phoneticStringsFor: 'titlebalm' #('T341')

DoubleMetaphoneStringComparator new phoneticStringsFor: 'teitelbaum' #('TTLPM' 'TTLPM')

Let me know if you have any questions.

Regards,

Ron Teitelbaum

_____

From: beginners-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:beginners-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Rob Rothwell Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 6:35 AM To: Ron@usmedrec.com Cc: A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questionsaboutSqueak. Subject: Re: [Newbies] SoundEx algorithm

No rush...I am working on a custom recipe program for my wife and wanted to use it to search ingredients and still find something that was misspelled!

Thanks,

Rob

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Ron Teitelbaum Ron@usmedrec.com wrote:

I did one but didn't release it anywhere. I did metaphone and double metaphone.

Maybe I can dig it up. When did you need it?

Ron Teitelbaum

_____

From: beginners-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:beginners-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Rob Rothwell Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 4:39 PM To: Beginners Sqeak Subject: [Newbies] SoundEx algorithm

Does anyone know of a SoundEx algorithm in Squeak before I go write one myself?

Never hurts to ask!

Rob

Hi Ian,

This is from WikiPedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Metaphone

Use the Double Metaphone if you are interested in other languages.

The Double Metaphone search algorithm is a phonetic algorithm written by Lawrence Philips and is the second generation of his Metaphone algorithm. Its implementation was described in the June 2000 issue of C/C++ Users Journal.

It is called "Double" because it can return both a primary and a secondary code for a string; this accounts for some ambiguous cases as well as for multiple variants of surnames with common ancestry. For example, encoding the name "Smith" yields a primary code of SM0 and a secondary code of XMT, while the name "Schmidt" yields a primary code of XMT and a secondary code of SMT--both have XMT in common.

Double Metaphone tries to account for myriad irregularities in English of Slavic, Germanic, Celtic, Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, and other origin. Thus it uses a much more complex ruleset for coding than its predecessor; for example, it tests for approximately 100 different contexts of the use of the letter C alone. In the introduction to his original journal article, Mr. Philips defended this complexity.

Hope that helps!

Ron Teitelbaum

-----Original Message----- From: Ian Trudel [mailto:ian.trudel@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 11:29 AM To: Ron@usmedrec.com; The general-purpose Squeak developers list Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] SoundsLike package released on SqueakSource

Sounds great, Ron! Has SoundsLike only English phonetics or it is possible to define and use phonetics from other languages? Let's say, multilingual. :)

Ian

2009/1/16 Ron Teitelbaum Ron@usmedrec.com:

...

Hello all,

I have released a new package on SqueakSource that contains SoundEx and DoubleMetaphone.

http://www.squeaksource.com/SoundsLike.html

This package adds soundsLike: to string

'titlebalm' soundsLike: 'teitelbaum'

You can also get the phenoticStringsFor: a word to store in a database

for

...

later queries.

PhoneticStringComparator defaultClass "SoundEx" new phoneticStringsFor: 'titlebalm' #('T341')

DoubleMetaphoneStringComparator new phoneticStringsFor: 'teitelbaum' #('TTLPM' 'TTLPM')

Let me know if you have any questions.

Regards,

Ron Teitelbaum

---

From: beginners-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:beginners-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Rob Rothwell Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 6:35 AM To: Ron@usmedrec.com Cc: A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questionsaboutSqueak. Subject: Re: [Newbies] SoundEx algorithm

No rush...I am working on a custom recipe program for my wife and wanted

to

...

use it to search ingredients and still find something that was

misspelled!

...

Thanks,

Rob

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Ron Teitelbaum Ron@usmedrec.com

wrote:

...

I did one but didn't release it anywhere. I did metaphone and double metaphone.

Maybe I can dig it up. When did you need it?

Ron Teitelbaum

---

From: beginners-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:beginners-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Rob Rothwell Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 4:39 PM To: Beginners Sqeak Subject: [Newbies] SoundEx algorithm

Does anyone know of a SoundEx algorithm in Squeak before I go write one myself?

Never hurts to ask!

Rob

Sorry about that I'll have a look and fix it over the weekend. I run it in 3.9 also so it should work.

Ron

_____

From: Rob Rothwell [mailto:r.j.rothwell@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 8:32 PM To: Ron@usmedrec.com; The general-purpose Squeak developers list Cc: Ian Trudel Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] SoundsLike package released on SqueakSource

Hmmm...even in a 3.9-7067 fresh image, I get a Syntax error when trying to load from Monticello:

testProcessCxNothing more expected ->_1 dmsc inputKey: 'abcdefg'. self should: [ dmsc inputKey = 'ABCDEFG' ].

self should: [ dmsc primaryTranslation = '' ]. self should: [ dmsc secondaryTranslation = '' ]. self should: [ dmsc skipCount = 0 ]. dmsc currentIndex: 3.

dmsc processC.

self should: [ dmsc primaryTranslation = 'K' ]. self should: [ dmsc secondaryTranslation = 'K' ]. self should: [ dmsc skipCount = 0 ]

Rob

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Ron Teitelbaum Ron@usmedrec.com wrote:

Hi Ian,

This is from WikiPedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Metaphone

Use the Double Metaphone if you are interested in other languages.

The Double Metaphone search algorithm is a phonetic algorithm written by Lawrence Philips and is the second generation of his Metaphone algorithm. Its implementation was described in the June 2000 issue of C/C++ Users Journal.

It is called "Double" because it can return both a primary and a secondary code for a string; this accounts for some ambiguous cases as well as for multiple variants of surnames with common ancestry. For example, encoding the name "Smith" yields a primary code of SM0 and a secondary code of XMT, while the name "Schmidt" yields a primary code of XMT and a secondary code of SMT--both have XMT in common.

Double Metaphone tries to account for myriad irregularities in English of Slavic, Germanic, Celtic, Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, and other origin. Thus it uses a much more complex ruleset for coding than its predecessor; for example, it tests for approximately 100 different contexts of the use of the letter C alone. In the introduction to his original journal article, Mr. Philips defended this complexity.

Hope that helps!

Ron Teitelbaum

-----Original Message----- From: Ian Trudel [mailto:ian.trudel@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 11:29 AM To: Ron@usmedrec.com; The general-purpose Squeak developers list Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] SoundsLike package released on SqueakSource

Sounds great, Ron! Has SoundsLike only English phonetics or it is possible to define and use phonetics from other languages? Let's say, multilingual. :)

Ian

2009/1/16 Ron Teitelbaum Ron@usmedrec.com:

...

Hello all,

I have released a new package on SqueakSource that contains SoundEx and DoubleMetaphone.

http://www.squeaksource.com/SoundsLike.html

This package adds soundsLike: to string

'titlebalm' soundsLike: 'teitelbaum'

You can also get the phenoticStringsFor: a word to store in a database

for

...

later queries.

PhoneticStringComparator defaultClass "SoundEx" new phoneticStringsFor: 'titlebalm' #('T341')

DoubleMetaphoneStringComparator new phoneticStringsFor: 'teitelbaum' #('TTLPM' 'TTLPM')

Let me know if you have any questions.

Regards,

Ron Teitelbaum

---

From: beginners-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:beginners-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Rob Rothwell Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 6:35 AM To: Ron@usmedrec.com Cc: A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questionsaboutSqueak. Subject: Re: [Newbies] SoundEx algorithm

No rush...I am working on a custom recipe program for my wife and wanted

to

...

use it to search ingredients and still find something that was

misspelled!

...

Thanks,

Rob

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Ron Teitelbaum Ron@usmedrec.com

wrote:

...

I did one but didn't release it anywhere. I did metaphone and double metaphone.

Maybe I can dig it up. When did you need it?

Ron Teitelbaum

---

From: beginners-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:beginners-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Rob Rothwell Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 4:39 PM To: Beginners Sqeak Subject: [Newbies] SoundEx algorithm

Does anyone know of a SoundEx algorithm in Squeak before I go write one myself?

Never hurts to ask!

Rob

Hi Ian,

Sorry, I read your question wrong. Double Metaphone is for English only but it does work if non English spellers are doing the typing. I didn't write the algorithm I just made it work in Smalltalk.

Ron

-----Original Message----- From: Ron Teitelbaum [mailto:Ron@USMedRec.com] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 11:38 AM To: 'Ian Trudel'; 'The general-purpose Squeak developers list' Subject: RE: [squeak-dev] SoundsLike package released on SqueakSource

Hi Ian,

This is from WikiPedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Metaphone

Use the Double Metaphone if you are interested in other languages.

The Double Metaphone search algorithm is a phonetic algorithm written by Lawrence Philips and is the second generation of his Metaphone algorithm. Its implementation was described in the June 2000 issue of C/C++ Users Journal.

It is called "Double" because it can return both a primary and a secondary code for a string; this accounts for some ambiguous cases as well as for multiple variants of surnames with common ancestry. For example, encoding the name "Smith" yields a primary code of SM0 and a secondary code of XMT, while the name "Schmidt" yields a primary code of XMT and a secondary code of SMT--both have XMT in common.

Double Metaphone tries to account for myriad irregularities in English of Slavic, Germanic, Celtic, Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, and other origin. Thus it uses a much more complex ruleset for coding than its predecessor; for example, it tests for approximately 100 different contexts of the use of the letter C alone. In the introduction to his original journal article, Mr. Philips defended this complexity.

Hope that helps!

Ron Teitelbaum

...

-----Original Message----- From: Ian Trudel [mailto:ian.trudel@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 11:29 AM To: Ron@usmedrec.com; The general-purpose Squeak developers list Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] SoundsLike package released on SqueakSource

Sounds great, Ron! Has SoundsLike only English phonetics or it is possible to define and use phonetics from other languages? Let's say, multilingual. :)

Ian

2009/1/16 Ron Teitelbaum Ron@usmedrec.com:

...

Hello all,

I have released a new package on SqueakSource that contains SoundEx

and

...

...

DoubleMetaphone.

http://www.squeaksource.com/SoundsLike.html

This package adds soundsLike: to string

'titlebalm' soundsLike: 'teitelbaum'

You can also get the phenoticStringsFor: a word to store in a database

for

...

later queries.

PhoneticStringComparator defaultClass "SoundEx" new

phoneticStringsFor:

...

...

'titlebalm' #('T341')

DoubleMetaphoneStringComparator new phoneticStringsFor: 'teitelbaum' #('TTLPM' 'TTLPM')

Let me know if you have any questions.

Regards,

Ron Teitelbaum

---

From: beginners-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:beginners-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Rob Rothwell Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 6:35 AM To: Ron@usmedrec.com Cc: A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questionsaboutSqueak. Subject: Re: [Newbies] SoundEx algorithm

No rush...I am working on a custom recipe program for my wife and

wanted

...

to

...

use it to search ingredients and still find something that was

misspelled!

...

Thanks,

Rob

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Ron Teitelbaum Ron@usmedrec.com

wrote:

...

I did one but didn't release it anywhere. I did metaphone and double metaphone.

Maybe I can dig it up. When did you need it?

Ron Teitelbaum

---

From: beginners-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:beginners-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Rob Rothwell Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 4:39 PM To: Beginners Sqeak Subject: [Newbies] SoundEx algorithm

Does anyone know of a SoundEx algorithm in Squeak before I go write

one

...

...

myself?

Never hurts to ask!

Rob