Re: [Gnumed-devel] re: Soundex

[Tim Churches]

On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 03:11, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> Because of the obvious thoroughness of the FEBRL approach I
> have always considered that to be the search engine I would
> use in GnuMed 2.0.

And by the time you are ready to start on GNUmed 2.0, Febrl should be
quite mature and ready to be use. I certainly want to push its
development to fulfilling the look-up engine role, as well as being a
batch-oriented linkage engine for epidemiological research purposes.
Note also there is an active project to develop a geocoding engine using
Febrl infrastructure - we have a working prototype which uses the
Australian G-NAF georeferenced address file, but will eventally work
with other such files for other countries.
-- 

Tim C

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