> Also it isn't the phonetic spelling that is really the problem - the > problem is that a lot of the time mistakes are typos not > miss-spellings i.e. Lonon which is phonetically completely different > to London despite being obvious that someone just missed the 'd' when > they were typing.
In that case you might want to have a look at the RefinedSoundex[1] which claims to be suitable for spell checking (I haven't tried it). The other option of course being a full blown spell checking program with stemming/dictionary/word distances etc. Lars [1] http://commons.apache.org/codec/apidocs/org/apache/commons/codec/language/RefinedSoundex.html _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
