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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2014
Applicant:
Acxiom Corporation, Little Rock, AR (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Acxiom Corporation, Little Rock, AR (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/27 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/277 (2013.01); G06F 17/273 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for matching equivalent words across languages takes advantage of a set of rules that are built from a user-defined language specification (UDLS), which may be open source and customizable by a language expert. The UDLS is used to build a customer language library (CLL) that includes a list of consonants, a list of vowels, and rules defining phoneme equivalencies across two languages. The CLL is used to match equivalent words by both two-set and three-set matching to not only increase the number of true matches (i.e., overall accuracy), but also improve recognition of variations in a manner that is not language specific.