Re: Phonetic speller function

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:43:48 +0200, Dotan Cohen <dotan_0105@dotancohen.com> wrote: > I looked at the 'sound like' modules in php (leveshtien, soundex) but they are > for comparing 2 strings, not creating a string based on what we already have. You're looking at it from the wrong end. With soundex you create soundex values for _all_ your known words, and you stick them in a db.. then you find the soundex value for the word in question and you do a lookup in your db to find other words with the closest values. You're right that you don't create any new strings based on the word. Instead you would provide a listing of similar words from the db lookup. It's all up to you what words go into the db to pick from. I read somewhere most English speaking folks only use about 80K words or so. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://destiney.com/