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- From: pkarp@ai.sri.com (Peter Karp)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
- Subject: Code to DWIMify / detect misspelled words
- Message-ID: <PKARP.93Jan6104236@rockaway.ai.sri.com>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 18:42:36 GMT
- Sender: news@unix.SRI.COM
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
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- Does anyone have a piece of Lisp code lying around that computes an
- edit distance between words to detect misspellings? For example,
- given the dictionary (apple orange kiwi) it could tell me that aplpe
- is most probably a misspelling of apple.
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