Class DaitchMokotoffSoundex

Encodes a string into a Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex value.

Inheritance
System.Object
DaitchMokotoffSoundex
Assembly: Lucene.Net.Analysis.Phonetic.dll
Syntax
public class DaitchMokotoffSoundex : object, IStringEncoder
Remarks

The Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex algorithm is a refinement of the Russel and American Soundex algorithms, yielding greater accuracy in matching especially Slavish and Yiddish surnames with similar pronunciation but differences in spelling.

The main differences compared to the other soundex variants are:

  • coded names are 6 digits long
  • the initial character of the name is coded
  • rules to encoded multi-character n-grams
  • multiple possible encodings for the same name (branching)

This implementation supports branching, depending on the used method:

Note: this implementation has additional branching rules compared to the original description of the algorithm. The rules can be customized by overriding the default rules contained in the resource file Lucene.Net.Analysis.Phonetic.Language.dmrules.txt.

This class is thread-safe.

See: Wikipedia - Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex

See: Avotaynu - Soundexing and Genealogy

since 1.10

Constructors

Name Description
DaitchMokotoffSoundex()

Creates a new instance with ASCII-folding enabled.
DaitchMokotoffSoundex(Boolean)

Creates a new instance.

With ASCII-folding enabled, certain accented characters will be transformed to equivalent ASCII characters, e.g. è -> e.

Methods

Name Description
Encode(String)

Encodes a string using the Daitch-Mokotoff soundex algorithm without branching.
GetSoundex(String)

Encodes a string using the Daitch-Mokotoff soundex algorithm with branching.

In case a string is encoded into multiple codes (see branching rules), the result will contain all codes, separated by '|'.

Example: the name "AUERBACH" is encoded as both

  • 097400
  • 097500

Thus the result will be "097400|097500".

Extension Methods

See Also