System Design for Detection and Correction of Spelling Errors in Scientific and Scholarly Text.

Pollock, Joseph J.; Zamora, Antonio

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ERIC Number: EJ297066

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Publication Date: 1984

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System Design for Detection and Correction of Spelling Errors in Scientific and Scholarly Text.

Pollock, Joseph J.; Zamora, Antonio

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v35 n2 p104-09 Mar 1984

Describes system design proposed by the Spelling Error Detection Correction Project (SPEEDCOP) at Chemical Abstracts Service. Highlights include principles of detection/correction system; spelling error detection (the dictionary, suffix normalization, bypassing specialized word classes, document-level frequency threshold); spelling error correction; reusing decisions; dictionary construction and maintenance; and typical application. (Fifteen references.) (EJS)

Descriptors: Algorithms, Dictionaries, Error Patterns, Spelling, Word Processing

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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