Phonetic string matching for languages with cyrillic alphabet

Abstract

The usage of phonetic similarity in comparison of textual strings and elimination of misprints is one of significant issues in philology. It is widely used in automatic text checking. Nowadays most of phonetic algorithms are designed for English language words processing. The quality of comparison may be decreased for non-English languages especially for languages, which have rich morphology and use non-Latin alphabet symbols, e.g. East Slavic languages with Cyrillic letters. We propose an approach to phonetic comparison of Russian language words. It is based on detection letters and letter sequences that have similar pronunciation according to rules of the language. The resultant phonetic representation of the words are coded by prime numbers. The efficiency of the reviewed algorithm is considered in the paper. The algorithm was adopted for Mongolian language phonetic processing.