Phonetic spell checker

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1999-03-10

2002-05-21

Hong, Stephen (Department: 2176)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

C707S793000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06393444

ABSTRACT:

FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a phonetic spell checker.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The objective of a phonetically-based spell-checker is to list the most likely correct spellings from a phonetic spelling of a word. For example the word “woz” could be correctly spelt “woos”, “woes”, “whiz” or “was”.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
The present invention provides a phonetic spell checker as claimed in claim
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In a further aspect the invention provides a data collection component for generating a weightings table for a phonetic spell checker according to claim
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Veronis, “Correction of phonographic errors in natural language interfaces”, ACM, 1988, pp. 101-115.*
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Turba, “Checking for spelling and typographical errors in computer-based text”, Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN SIGOA symposium on Text manipulation, Jun. 1981, pp. 51-60.

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