Did Robert C. Russell and Margaret King Odell specifically use the Major System as the model for their Soundex phonetic algorithm for indexing?
2 Matching Annotations
- Nov 2025
-
en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
-
-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex
There is a close relationship between the Soundex indexing scheme and the scheme behind the Major System!!!
Tags
- Oracle
- Ingres
- indexing systems
- Census Bureau
- phonetics
- IBM Db2
- Donald Knuth
- phonetic algorithms
- Margaret King Odell
- National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
- Robert C. Russell
- algorithms
- open questions
- SAP ASE
- Major system
- ClickHouse
- Snowflake
- SQLite
- Soundex
- MS SQL Server
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
Annotators
URL
-