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Using phonetic algorithms to increase your search space and detect misspellings.

28 Jul 2017

Lightening Talk

Using phonetic algorithms to increase your search space and detect misspellings.

Alex Kahan

Abstract

In this talk I will give a brief introduction to phonetic algorithms and how they can apply to gathering recon and searching through social media data. I will then demonstrate applying these techniques to a US Census dataset, and generate a searchable dataset capable of suggesting alternative spellings and pronunciations of names.

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