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Old 05-Apr-2005, 09:12
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Default On Spelling Correction and the Collective Knowledge of Web Users
I noticed the following on the SearchEngineWatch blog which our more technical readers might be interested in.

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Originally Posted by Gary Price
I just came across a paper that might be of worth a read by the techies out there who have interest in spelling correction systems.


Spelling correction as an iterative process that exploits the collective knowledge of web users


It was written by Silviu-Petru Cucerzan and Eric Brill, both are part of Microsoft's Text Mining Search and Navigation Research team.
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