Phonics in JSS

I am very happy to say my new article, “Phonetic Spelling Algorithm Implementations for R,” was published in the Journal of Statistical Software, this morning. This article is the culmination of a few years of work, off-and-on, working with phonetic spellign algorithms for record linkage. The package supports a wide variety of historical and current phonetic spelling algorithms:

• Caverphone
  • Original Caverphone
  • Caverphone 2
• Cologne (Kölner)
• Lein
• Match Rating Approach
  • Encoder
  • Comparison
• Metaphone
• New York State Identification and Intelligence System
  • NYSIIS
  • Modified NYSIIS
• Oxford Name Compression Algorithm
• Phonex
• Roger Root
• Soundex
  • Original Soundex
  • Apache Refined Soundex
• Statistics Canada
  • Census Modified

It’s been pleasing to see an occasional user send me an email because they been putting it to use. It all started because I needed a high-speed soundex and I just let it grow from there. This yak may not be shaved yet. Maybe a version in Rust, next…

This work used the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), which is supported by National Science Foundation grant number ACI-1548562. In particular, it used the Comet system at the San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC) through allocations TG-DBS170012 and TG-ASC150024.