[Haskell-cafe] Optimizing a title matcher

[Bayley, Alistair]

> From: haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org 
> [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Bulat Ziganshin
> Sent: 28 September 2006 17:29
> To: Lyle Kopnicky
>       
> now i will work on edit-distance algorithm. i'm have an idea of
> checking the real distance between chars - as on my keyboard, so for
> example "sprry" can be mistake for "sorry", but not for "serry"


For English text, the Soundex algorithm (or one of its variations) might
do a good job of matching:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex

Google doesn't show any Haskell implementations yet.

Alistair
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