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Re: st: Fuzzy collapse


From   Steve Nakoneshny <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Fuzzy collapse
Date   Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:08:09 -0700

Charles,

I agree with you that -soundex- may not be appropriate given assumptions about English background, but it may still be a reasonable option to try given the similarities of the strings you provided as examples (despite being French). It may or may not work though.

Steve

On 2012-01-26, at 9:58 AM, Charles Vellutini wrote:

> Thanks Steve. I will try that -- although my impression is that the Stata implementation of -soundex- is based on English, right? Not sure about French keywords (my data in this particular case).
> 
> Charles
> 
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] De la part de Steve Nakoneshny
> Envoyé : jeudi 26 janvier 2012 17:18
> À : [email protected]
> Objet : Re: st: Fuzzy collapse
> 
> Although I don't have any experience in using it, I would think that this situation may call for -soundex-, check -help string functions- for details.
> 
> 
> Steve
> 
> On 2012-01-26, at 9:03 AM, Charles Vellutini wrote:
> 
>> Dear Statalisters,
>> 
>> I have a string variable holding thousands of search keywords, many of them identical up to a few accents or characters. Here is a typical sample:
>> 
>> 		keyword
>> 
>> Obs1    		télécommandes
>> Obs2		télecommandes	
>> Obs3 		télécomandes
>> Obs4		telecommandes
>> Obs5		télécommande
>> etc.
>> 
>> I would like to do a "fuzzy" collapse, that is, to group observations with near-identical keywords. I could write manual multiple -replace-'s to harmonize keywords, but given the size of the dataset and the variety of keywords, that is hardly feasible. I am aware of the -reclink- user-written command for fuzzy merging but that is for merging two datasets, not for collapsing observations within a dataset. It is not immediately evident to me how I could use -reclink- to solve my problem, but maybe that is feasible?
>> 
>> Any suggestion much appreciated.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Charles
>> 
>> 
>> 
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