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[jira] [Commented] (SOLR-2982) Upgrade Apache Commons Codec to
version 1.6 in order to add new Beider-Morse Phonetic Matching (BMPM)
option
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Brooke Schreier Ganz commented on SOLR-2982:
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Thank you so much for working on this! I just tested out the latest nightly build on my laptop and everything works great.
I use Solr to run a non-profit group's 190,000+ record genealogy database and this new ability to do proper soundalike surname searches through our listings of consonant-heavy Central and Eastern European surnames (and their multitudes of "creative" spelling variants) will make things *a lot* easier. You just made a lot of genealogists very happy. :-)
Thanks again!
> Upgrade Apache Commons Codec to version 1.6 in order to add new Beider-Morse Phonetic Matching (BMPM) option
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> Key: SOLR-2982
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2982
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Rules, Schema and Analysis, search
> Reporter: Brooke Schreier Ganz
> Labels: codec, commons, commons-codec, language, names, phonetic, search, searching, soundalike
> Fix For: 3.6, 4.0
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> Attachments: SOLR-2982.patch
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> Apache Commons Codec released version 1.6 of their codec pack in November, 2011. Along with a few bug fixes, 1.6 contains a great new phonetic matching system called Beider-Morse Phonetic Matching (BMPM) that is far superior to the existing phonetic codecs, such as regular soundex, metaphone, caverphone, and so on. BMPM has actually been available for some time, but this is the first port of it to java, and its first commit in the Apache ecosystem.
> For a lot more information, see here: http://stevemorse.org/phoneticinfo.htm and http://stevemorse.org/phonetics/bmpm.htm
> BMPM would be a fantastic "soundalike" tool to help search for personal names (or just surnames) in a Solr/Lucene index, much better than Levenshtein distance for this use case.
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