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From:  Valerie Sutton
Date:  Fri Mar 22, 2002  4:02 am
Subject:  Re: SignBank 3: What kind of search-routines do you want?


SignWriting List
March 21, 2002

Thank you, Dan and Stuart, for your search ideas. I will tell Todd
about Soundex or Visex! I guess Soundex is a little like
"sound-alike"? Like "tree" and "three"? Didn't Rebus Writing have
something like that?

Val ;-)

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>> This is my best attempt at it. Maybe Dan has a better explanation.
>
>What he said :-)
>
>That's pretty much it, so easily confusable handshapes get the same
>code, as do grossly similar motions, locations, etc.
>
>So there are a few options:
>
>1. Precise search
>2. Ranked matchings
>3. Soundex (Visex?) search.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Dan.

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