Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Intro A phonetic algorithm matches two different words with similar pronunciation to the same code, which allows phonetic similarity based word set comparison and indexing. Often it is quite difficult to find atypical name (or surname) in the database, for example: — Hey, John, look for Adolf Schwarzenegger. — Adolf Shwardseneger? There is no such person! In this case, the use of phonetic algorithms (especially in combination with fuzzy matching algorithms) can significantly simplify the problem.
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