Hi, Wow, interesting question. Can soundex even be applied to a language like Chinese, which is tonal and doesn't have individual letters, but whole characters? I'm no expert, but intuitively speaking it sounds hard or maybe even impossible...
Otis ---- Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ >________________________________ >From: Floyd Wu <floyd...@gmail.com> >To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 5:43 AM >Subject: Does anybody has experience in Chinese soundex(sounds like) of SOLR? > >Hi there, > >There are many English soundex implementation can be referenced, but I >wonder how to do Chinese soundex(sounds like) filter (maybe). > >any idea? > >Floyd > > >