Re: st: Fuzzy collapse

[Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org>]

On Thu, 26 Jan 2012, Steve Nakoneshny wrote:

> 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.

Soundex was created to encode foreign names into the latin alphabet while 
robust to transliteration problems. Other than avoiding accented 
characters, it isn't especially English oriented.

daniel feenberg

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