Phonics in JSS

Monday October 12, 2020

•  phonics •  articles •  R •  XSEDE •  data science •  demography •  computational linguistics • 

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.