
Phonics in JSS
12 Oct 2020I 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.