MLPhone

Rewriting MLPhone to Go by porting KNPhone.

MLphone is a phonetic algorithm for indexing Malayalam words by their pronunciation, like Metaphone for English. The algorithm generates three Romanized phonetic keys (hashes) of varying phonetic affinities for a given Malayalam word.

Full documentation

Intro

MLphone is a phonetic algorithm for indexing Malayalam words by their pronunciation,
like Metaphone for English. The algorithm generates three Romanized phonetic keys (hashes) of varying
phonetic affinities for a given Malayalam word.

The algorithm takes into account the context sensitivity of sounds, syntactic and
phonetic gemination, compounding, modifiers, and other known exceptions to produce
Romanized phonetic hashes of increasing phonetic affinity that are very faithful
to the pronunciation of the original Malayalam word.

• key0 = a broad phonetic hash comparable to a Metaphone key that doesn’t account for hard sounds (ഷ, ണ..) or phonetic modifiers

• key1 = is a slightly more inclusive hash that accounts for hard sounds

• key2 = highly inclusive and narrow hash that accounts for hard sounds and phonetic modifiers

MLphone was created to aid spelling tolerant Malayalam word search, but may
be useful in tasks like spell checking, word suggestion etc.

Examples

Usage

import 'gitlab.com/joice/mlphone-go'
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phone := mlphone.New()
val1, val2, val3 := phone.Encode("മണം")
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License

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE v3