[CODEC-161] Add Match Rating Approach (MRA) phonetic algorithm encoder

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.6
• Fix Version/s: 1.8
• Labels: newbie
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Colm Rice
• Created: 25/Oct/12 08:53
• Updated: 28/Apr/13 19:15
• Resolved: 28/Nov/12 21:01

Description

I want to add MatchRatingApproach algorithm to the Lucene project via commons codec.
What I have at the moment is a class called org.apache.lucene.analysis.phoenetic.MatchRatingApproach implementing StringEncoder
I have a pretty comprehensive test file located at: org.apache.lucene.analysis.phonetic.MatchRatingApproachTests

It's not exactly existing pattern so I'm going to need a bit of advice here. Thanks! Feel free to email.

FYI: It my first contribution so be gentle C# is my native.
I had incorrectly added this to Lucene solution as LUCENE-4494 but received some good advice to move it to here. I'm doing that now.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_rating_approach