Fifty years of spellchecking

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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This paper was published in Birkbeck Institutional Research Online.

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