Phonetic comparison algorithms.
Appealing to phonetic similarity has traditionally been discouraged in linguistics, partly because it has been an ill-defined and subjective concept. But much research nowadays requires measures of similarity between words, from practical work in speech technology, information retrieval, and commerc...
| Published in: | Transactions of the Philological Society Vol. 103; no. 2; pp. 243 - 261 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2005
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