Date   : Wed, 03 May 1989 02:10:48 GMT
From   : cca.ucsf.edu!root@cgl.ucsf.edu (Systems Staff)
Subject: Spelling checker routines

In article <11348@tekecs.GWD.TEK.COM>, andrew@frip.wv.tek.com (Andrew Klossner)
writes:
> 
> The approach used in the spelling corrector component of the Unica(tm)
> utility set was to look through a (separate) dictionary of commonly
> misspelled words, which includes the correct spelling:

Another approach (if you are really enthusiastic) is to generate the
soundex code for the word to look up and use this to access a copy
of the dictionary.

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             San Francisco, CA 94143-0704

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