On Jul 6, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: > It would seem something is off to get negatives on Place, Ace & Mace.
That's Soundex. First character is matched literally. You might want to look at Metaphone, rather than using an algorithm that was designed in the 19th century for calculation by hand by census takers ;-) Although it too will give you negatives on place, ace & mace because those do not really sound like "face" at all. "Rhymes with" is a rather low threshold for "sounds like"--first consonant is very important, and it seems highly unlikely that someone would think they heard "place" when "face" was spoken to them. Personally, I use Metaphone to find similar strings, then modified Levenshtein to rank them. -- Scott Ribe scott_r...@elevated-dev.com http://www.elevated-dev.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
