Soundex Project Overview

Mission and Scope

What problem does this project address?
Due it's largeness and complexity, there are many ambiguities in the English language. Different spellings of names may result in the same sounds phonetically. This may be difficult especially when searching for a person, or a name, in an attempt to trace a person's genealogical history.
What is the goal of this project?
The goal of Soundex is to make a faster, more efficient search engine using a refined Daitch-Mokotoff algorithm. This algorithm will execute searches based on the way words sound, as opposed to their spelling.
What is the scope of this project?
This project will span a length of ten weeks during the winter quarter of 2004.

For more information, see the project proposal.

Status

We have just completed the requirements documents and all the use cases. We have begun thinking about design issues such as sequence and class diagrams. Minor implementation has started as well.

The next major milestone is the completion of the design documents.

Development Documents

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