En Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:25:14 -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> Many thanks for the excellent leads. I've also found several > functions to find phonetic similarity between English names: the > mentioned above soundex, then, also, one called metaphone. I'm now > thinking of the best way to use some combination of these functions. You may be interested in this article which discusses some techniques used to match similar records: Record Linkage: A Machine Learning Approach, A Toolbox, and A Digital Government Web Service (2003) Mohamed G. Elfeky, Vassilios S. Verykios, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Thanaa M. Ghanem, Ahmed R. Huwait. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/elfeky03record.html -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
