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 at 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 at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 11:29 AM
> > To: Ron at 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 at 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 at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> > > [mailto:beginners-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Rob
> > > Rothwell
> > > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 6:35 AM
> > > To: Ron at 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 at 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 at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> > > [mailto:beginners-bounces at 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >