The Spanish Metaphone Algorithm (Algoritmo del Metáfono para el Español)
If you use it in academic papers you can cite this article:
@inproceedings{mosquera2012towards,
title={Towards Facilitating the Accessibility of Web 2.0 Texts through Text Normalisation},
author={Mosquera, Alejandro and Lloret, Elena and Moreda, Paloma},
booktitle={Proceedings of the LREC workshop: Natural Language Processing for Improving Textual Accessibility (NLP4ITA) ; Istanbul, Turkey.},
pages={9--14},
year={2012}}
This script implements the Metaphone algorithm (c) 1990 by Lawrence Philips.
It was inspired by the English double metaphone algorithm implementation by
Andrew Collins - January 12, 2007 who claims no rights to this work
(http://www.atomodo.com/code/double-metaphone)
This metaphone port adapted to the Spanish Language is authored
by Alejandro Mosquera <amosquera@dlsi.ua.es> November, 2011
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vinaysathyan/Spanish-Metaphone
Metaphone is a phonetic algorithm, an algorithm published in 1990 for indexing words by their English pronunciation. It fundamentally improves on the Soundex algorithm by using information about variations and inconsistencies in English spelling and pronunciation to produce a more accurate encoding, which does a better job of matching words and nam
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