Hi! I have way better results with DoubleMetaphone. It's available in apache commons codec.
You need a two step approach: First select the canidates with phonetic keys (Soundex/DoubleMetaphone) Then filter all canidates with the original search value with something like JaroWinkler and a defined threshold. juergen -- View this message in context: http://drools-java-rules-engine.46999.n3.nabble.com/soundslike-report-on-phonetic-matching-tp1707485p1707757.html Sent from the Drools - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ rules-dev mailing list rules-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev