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It's all very well to have "do soundex" as a task, but it would be far better if we had a more concrete task. For example, attempting spelling corrections on a short text using soundex matching against a supplied dictionary. Right now, it feels like this task isn't really going anywhere. –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 15:51, 12 November 2009 (UTC) |
It's all very well to have "do soundex" as a task, but it would be far better if we had a more concrete task. For example, attempting spelling corrections on a short text using soundex matching against a supplied dictionary. Right now, it feels like this task isn't really going anywhere. –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 15:51, 12 November 2009 (UTC) |
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:A contributor to the problem is that there's no algorithm. I looked at the one on WP and it doesn't make that much sense to me. I checked the talk page and there's an alternate algorithm proposed, but it apparently doesn't cover all cases. Also, for languages without built-in soundex libraries, doing the conversion alone seems like task enough to me. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 16:07, 12 November 2009 (UTC) |
:A contributor to the problem is that there's no algorithm. I looked at the one on WP and it doesn't make that much sense to me. I checked the talk page and there's an alternate algorithm proposed, but it apparently doesn't cover all cases. Also, for languages without built-in soundex libraries, doing the conversion alone seems like task enough to me. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 16:07, 12 November 2009 (UTC) |
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::Fair point about languages without soundex in libs. Maybe the other idea would be better as a task that builds on this one… –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 16:30, 12 November 2009 (UTC) |
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Task Improvement
It's all very well to have "do soundex" as a task, but it would be far better if we had a more concrete task. For example, attempting spelling corrections on a short text using soundex matching against a supplied dictionary. Right now, it feels like this task isn't really going anywhere. –Donal Fellows 15:51, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
- A contributor to the problem is that there's no algorithm. I looked at the one on WP and it doesn't make that much sense to me. I checked the talk page and there's an alternate algorithm proposed, but it apparently doesn't cover all cases. Also, for languages without built-in soundex libraries, doing the conversion alone seems like task enough to me. --Mwn3d 16:07, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
- Fair point about languages without soundex in libs. Maybe the other idea would be better as a task that builds on this one… –Donal Fellows 16:30, 12 November 2009 (UTC)