What is the Metaphone 3 Algorithm?

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necromancer picture necromancer · May 4, 2012 · Viewed 15.8k times · Source

I want to code the Metaphone 3 algorithm myself. Is there a description? I know the source code is available for sale but that is not what I am looking for.

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Bo. picture Bo. · May 15, 2012

Since the author (Lawrence Philips) decided to commercialize the algorithm itself it is more than likely that you will not find description. The good place to ask would be the mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/aspell-metaphone

but you can also checkout source code (i.e. the code comments) in order to understand how algorithm works: http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/source/browse/trunk/main/src/com/google/refine/clustering/binning/Metaphone3.java?r=2029

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