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Fifty years of spellchecking

Roger Mitton Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck, University of London
Pages 1-7 | Published online: 20 Dec 2011
 
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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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