Alignment of Phonetic Sequences Using the 'ALINE' Algorithm
Description
Functions are provided to calculate the 'ALINE' Distance between words as per
(Kondrak 2000) and (Downey, Hallmark, Cox, Norquest, & Lansing, 2008,
). The score is based on phonetic features represented
using the Unicode-compliant International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Parameterized
features weights are used to determine the optimal alignment and functions are
provided to estimate optimum values using a genetic algorithm and supervised
learning. See (Downey, Sun, and Norquest 2017,
.