Metaphone is a phonetic algorithm, published by Lawrence Philips in 1990, for indexing words by their English pronunciation.
The original author later produced a new version of the algorithm, which he named Double Metaphone. Contrary to the original algorithm whose application is limited to English only, this version takes into account spelling peculiarities of a number of other languages. Original article can be found at Dr Dobb's.
Other details can be found on Wikipedia
Usage is very simple, after importing the package, call the doublemetaphone.DoubleMetaphone() function to retrieve
the first and the second metaphones. The function takes as a parameter the string to index and returns its metaphones.
Example:
primary, secondary := doublemetaphone.DoubleMetaphone("SMITH")
fmt.Printf("Metaphones for SMITH: first: %v, second: %v\n", primary, secondary)Copyright 2018, Thomas Wuillemin thomas.wuillemin@gmail.com
This code is a derivative work from an implementation by Stephen Lacy slacy@slacy.com. Original implementation can be found at github
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