Linguistic Obsession

"Want to see smoke come out of my ears, just show me a misplaced apostrophe or an improperly used transitive verb." I didn't write that, but I'll be nice and not edit the wonky use of commas by my generous host.

Tuesday, April 05, 2005

On Spelling Correction and the Collective Knowledge of Web Users

Gary Price over at Search Engine Watch has found an interesting report titled "Spelling correction as an iterative process that exploits the collective knowledge of web users". It's deep but if you're interested in just how Google and the like "suggest" alternative spellings, this report is for you.

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