The library library(double_metaphone) implements the Double
Metaphone algorithm developed by Lawrence Philips and described in “The
Double-Metaphone Search Algorithm'' by L Philips, C/C++ User's Journal,
2000. Double Metaphone creates a key from a word that represents its
phonetic properties. Two words with the same Double Metaphone are
supposed to sound similar. The Double Metaphone algorithm is an improved
version of the Soundex algorithm.
- double_metaphone(+In,
-MetaPhone)
- Same as double_metaphone/3,
but only returning the primary metaphone.
- double_metaphone(+In,
-MetaPhone, -AltMetaphone)
- Create metaphone and alternative metaphone from In. The
primary metaphone is based on english, while the secondary deals with
common alternative pronounciation in other languages. In is
either and atom, string object, code- or character list. The metaphones
are always returned as atoms.
The Double Metaphone algorithm is copied from the Perl library that
holds the following copyright notice. To the best of our knowledge the
Perl license is compatible to the SWI-Prolog license schema and
therefore including this module poses no additional license conditions.
Copyright 2000, Maurice Aubrey <maurice@hevanet.com>.
All rights reserved.
This code is based heavily on the C++ implementation by Lawrence
Philips and incorporates several bug fixes courtesy of Kevin Atkinson
<kevina@users.sourceforge.net>.
This module is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.
