1964 ATechniqueForComputDetAndCorOfSpelErr

• (Damerau, 1964) ⇒ Fred J. Damerau. (1964). “A Technique for Computer Detection and Correction of Spelling Errors.” In: Communications of the ACM, 7(3). doi:10.1145/363958.363994

Subject Headings: String Distance Function.

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Abstract

The method described assumes that a word which cannot be found in a dictionary has at most one error, which might be a wrong, missing or extra letter or a single transposition. The unidentified input word is compared to the dictionary again, testing each time to see if the words match — assuming one of these errors occurred. During a test run on garbled text, correct identifications were made for over 95 percent of these error types.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
1964 ATechniqueForComputDetAndCorOfSpelErr	Fred Damerau			A Technique for Computer Detection and Correction of Spelling Errors				10.1145/363958.363994