Issue with sounds-like queries

["Jayakumar.V" <ja...@uaeexchange.com>]

Hi,

 

I'm facing an issue with sounds-like queries. I've experimented with both
Apache Codec & the Phonetix library from Tangentum Technologies
(http://www.tangentum.biz/en/products/phonetix/faqs/index.html ) to see if I
could sort out the issue somehow using either of the libraries. 

 

I've an index containing details of various Banks in the world & their
associated Branches. 

Each document has a field holding the Branch Name(s) for the individual
Bank(s). 

 

While searching for the following branch name :-  QUILON, it also returns
back details where the branch name may contain the word COLONY, since using
Metaphone or DoubleMetaphone, both QUILON & COLONY get encoded to the same
value :-  KLN. 

This returns in-correct results. 

 

Another example would be CALICUT (located in South India) & CALCUTTA
(located in North India), both get encoded to KLKT.

 

I can narrow down the result by filtering based on COUNTRY or COUNTRY +
STATE but still I might get back results which may not be the one intended.

 

I also tried using the RefinedSoundex class. The issue here is that, "QUILON
BRANCH" will get encoded as - Q50708190830, whereas "QUILON" alone will get
encoded as - Q50708. The user may input only "QUILON" while making a search
which will not return back hits in the above case.

 

Hope I was clear in communicating the issue. 

 

Any thoughts / inputs will be really helpful.

 

 

Thanks & Regards

 

Jayakumar.V

UAE Xchange Center

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