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Have you considered dumping it into Open Refine? [1] I haven't used it a lot, but it is likely a good tool to find similar data and allow you to globally replace with a canonical entry. Roy [1] http://openrefine.org/ On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Ken Irwin <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm looking for a tool that can look at a list of all of subject terms in > a poorly-controlled index as possible candidates for term consolidation. > Our student newspaper index has about 16,000 subject terms and they include > a lot of meaningless typographical and nomenclatural difference, e.g.: > > Irwin, Ken > Irwin, Kenneth > Irwin, Mr. Kenneth > Irwin, Kenneth R. > > Basketball - Women > Basketball - Women's > Basketball-Women > Basketball-Women's > > I would love to have some sort of pattern-matching tool that's smart about > this sort of thing that could go through the list of terms (as a text list, > database, xml file, or whatever structure it wants to ingest) and spit out > some clusters of possible matches. > > Does anyone know of a tool that's good for that sort of thing? > > The index is just a bunch of MySQL tables - there is no real > controlled-vocab system, though I've recently built some systems to suggest > known SH's to reduce this sort of redundancy. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks! > Ken >