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Fifty years of spellchecking

Mitton, Roger (2010) Fifty years of spellchecking. Writing Systems Research 2 (1), pp. 1-7. ISSN 1758-6801.

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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.

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Item Type: Article
School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Depositing User: Administrator
Date Deposited: 17 Aug 2010 09:06
Last Modified: 15 Jul 2025 21:59
URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/1211

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