Mitton, Roger (2010) Fifty years of spellchecking. Writing Systems Research 2 (1), pp. 1-7. ISSN 1758-6801.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wsr/wsq004
Abstract
A short history of spellchecking from the late 1950s to the present day, describing its development through dictionary lookup, affix stripping, correction, confusion sets, and edit distance to the use of gigantic databases.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| School or Research Centre: | Birkbeck Schools and Research Centres > School of Business, Economics & Informatics > Computer Science and Information Systems |
| ID Code: | 1211 |
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| Deposited On: | 17 Aug 2010 10:06 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Apr 2012 11:48 |
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