Re: Some questions --> Metaphone

> One thing that _isn't_ in mailreaver is a text renormalizer,
> to convert things like 133t-speak into their Latin-1 normal
> forms.  I wonder if Metaphone could be hacked to do that...
> (thanks for the tip on metaphone!).

IIRC there's a Metaphone v2 out there.
Don't know for sure if it includes l33tspeak transformation (which is
a rather fuzzy process as some characters are used to represent
different characters or even partial/complete words, depending on
context and writer. Also note the devastatingly often incorrect use of
there (--> their) and the 'word' u --> you. There's also stuff like
'l8r' --> later.)
I've seen a l33tspeak 'metaphone'-like version a few years ago, but
don't recall if it was public domain or proprietary.
What they did was metaphone + tagging, i.e. transforming the input to
phonetics of some sort (metaphone is just one way of doing it) +
adding tags to the converted words to signal what 'type of origin' it
had: was the transformed word a l33tspeak, a probable typo or a
grammatical misplacement, ... 'twas used for search engine indexing
optimization.



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