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- From: alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Pattern Matching for Spelling Correction
- Message-ID: <alien.02g6@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 12:13:05 GMT+12
- References: <1993Jan7.054651.25174@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> <726524557snz@panache.demon.co.uk>
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- Organization: Muppet Labs
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- In article <726524557snz@panache.demon.co.uk> raph@panache.demon.co.uk (Raphael mankin) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan7.054651.25174@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA writes:
- >
- >>I'm currently working on the front-end to an information retrieval
- >>package and would like to incorporate a facility to provide for
- >>spelling correction. Does anyone have any recommendations for an
- >>efficient pattern matching algorithm which could be used in this
- >>capacity?
- >>
- >>The dictionary is rather large (but static) and I would prefer having
- >>the option to search the entries either on disk or through a table
- >>in memory.
- >>
- >Sorry to be so short tempered, but does no-one ever read the journals?
- >
- >CommACM Oct 1992 Vol 35 No 10. pp74-91
- >and a whole host of others. Try your university library.
-
- Sorry to be so short tempered, but try to remember that not everyone is at
- a university or has access to journals. Some of us occasionally work in the
- real world.
-
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- ...... Ross Smith (Wanganui, NZ) ...... alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz ......
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