Soundex : Java Glossary

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Soundex
A technique invented in 1918 described by Donald Knuth for filing names by the way they are pronounced rather than the way they are spelled. You generate a phonetic key from the name and index by that.
Avotaynu
Jaro-Winkler distance: fuzzy string compare
Levenshtein distance: fuzzy string compare
metaphone
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