Cameron Laird claird at lairds.com
Mon Apr 26 13:26:37 EDT 2004

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In article <knbjc.267$id.3998 at news2.e.nsc.no>,
Leif B. Kristensen <junkmail at solumslekt.org> wrote:
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>which can be spelled in an amazing number of different ways. As I found
>that the Soundex algorithm was useless for Norwegian spellings, I
>invented my own. It's not really an algorithm, but a series of
>substitutions that reduces names to a kind of primitives. Thus, eg.
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"Canonicalization" is one name in academic English for this transformation.
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