Automatic correction to misspelled names

1 March 1987

journal article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM

Vol. 30 (3), 224-228
https://doi.org/10.1145/214748.214756

Abstract

Using an information theoretic likeness measure defined as an inner product on a data space created from a table of valid names, this 4GL procedure searches the database space for the nearest correctly spelled name.

Keywords

FOURTH-GENERATION LANGUAGE APPROACH
MISSPELLED NAME
AUTOMATIC CORRECTION
INNER PRODUCT
DATABASE SPACE
DATA SPACE
INFORMATION THEORETIC LIKENESS MEASURE
VALID NAME

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Computer programs for detecting and correcting spelling errors
Communications of the ACM, 1980

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