Automata, Computability, and Complexity: Theory and Applications by Elaine Rich

Phonetic String Matching

Overviews and Comparisons

  1. Zobel and Dart’s SIGIR 1996 paper

Soundex

  1. U.S. National Archive site with the Soundex rule
  2. RootsWeb Soundex converter
  3. The Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex system for handling Jewish names
  4. Source code for the Soundex system

Metaphone and Double Metaphone

  1. Larry Philips’s Double Metaphone paper
  2. Implementations and use of Double Metaphone