From: Axel Etzold <AEtzold@...>
Date: 2008-09-01T17:38:08+09:00
Subject: Re: How to match words that rhyme?


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> Datum: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:09:01 +0900
> Von: Erik Hollensbe <erik@hollensbe.org>
> An: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Betreff: Re: How to match words that rhyme?

> Michael Morin wrote:
> > English is extremely inconsistent.  Good doesn't rhyme with food which
> > doesn't rhyme with flood.  You're going to need something that describes
> > the phonetics of each word, like an open dictionary.  With that, you
> > should be able to identify which words rhyme.
> > 
> > Rhyme is a subjective term as well.  Some words "rhyme" even though they
> > don't meet any formal definition of "rhyme," they just sound right
> > together.  But this is a lesser concern.
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something subtle, but isn't this what soundex is for?

.. which is why I had proposed it in a previous post.
But Michael is right with his examples ... a great number of often-occurring
words that are classified as similar won't sound similar.
So, a good dictionary with phonetic information seems the best idea to go for,
Maybe Wiktionary ? I also liked the American Heritage Dictionary (but I think if you
want to use it as often as you'd need to generate a dictionary of sound-alike words,
you'd have to buy the installed version, and I don't know if it runs under anything
else than Windows...)

Best regards,

Axel 


 
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex
> 
> It's definitely not perfect; my experience has been it generally works 
> better to catch misspellings in proper nouns than anything else, but it 
> could be potentially useful in the first part of a multi-step filtering 
> process.
> 
> At the worst, soundex is found damn near everywhere (even in some SQL 
> Database implementations.. I'd be surprised if there wasn't a ruby one) 
> and it should be easy to test (and rule out, if necessary) with a 
> wordlist.
> 
> -Erik
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