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From: gtoal@tharr.UUCP (Graham Toal)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: comparing words
Message-ID: <863@tharr.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 90 09:18:00 GMT
References: <264@bdofed.UUCP>
Reply-To: gtoal%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (Graham Toal)
Organization: Public Access Unix
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In article <264@bdofed.UUCP> bob@bdofed.UUCP (n) writes:
>I'm looking for software that will allow the comparison of words
>even if one is misspelled. What I need to do is similar to a spell
>checker. I get a word and I want to check a list to see if there
>is a match in a list of words. It should handle transposed characters,
>missing characters and other such things.

I posted some spelling-checker internal routines to alt.sources a
month or so back.  They handle the 4 major typo sources and include
a crude soundex algorithm. Also I've just about finished a more
accurate phonetic spelling corrector.  I can't mail to uucp addresses
from my home machine, so could you get in touch with me by mail via
whichever of these gateways is appropriate to you: earn-relay.ac.uk,
nsfnet-relay.ac.uk, or ean-relay.ac.uk  -- anything *EXCEPT* ukc :-(

>If you know of any routines to perform this task please send me
>email. If there is enough information I will summarize to the net.
Sorry I can't mail.  Hope the net gods don't object to this posting ;-)

Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>  (Ignore where this came from...)