%0 Journal Article %1 damerau1964technique %A Damerau, Fred J. %C New York, NY, USA %D 1964 %I ACM %J Commun. ACM %K damerau distance levenshtein spelling %N 3 %P 171--176 %R 10.1145/363958.363994 %T A Technique for Computer Detection and Correction of Spelling Errors %U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/363958.363994 %V 7 %X The method described assumes that a word which cannot be found in a dictionary has at most one error, which might be a wrong, missing or extra letter or a single transposition. The unidentified input word is compared to the dictionary again, testing each time to see if the words match—assuming one of these errors occurred. During a test run on garbled text, correct identifications were made for over 95 percent of these error types.

@article{damerau1964technique, abstract = {The method described assumes that a word which cannot be found in a dictionary has at most one error, which might be a wrong, missing or extra letter or a single transposition. The unidentified input word is compared to the dictionary again, testing each time to see if the words match—assuming one of these errors occurred. During a test run on garbled text, correct identifications were made for over 95 percent of these error types.}, acmid = {363994}, added-at = {2015-03-13T18:44:37.000+0100}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Damerau, Fred J.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2e044ce6c52f977e009f9ca3d0e578eef/sdo}, description = {A technique for computer detection and correction of spelling errors}, doi = {10.1145/363958.363994}, interhash = {b10df81f1860fd8bd7990f4684ad6f3a}, intrahash = {e044ce6c52f977e009f9ca3d0e578eef}, issn = {0001-0782}, issue_date = {March 1964}, journal = {Commun. ACM}, keywords = {damerau distance levenshtein spelling}, month = mar, number = 3, numpages = {6}, pages = {171--176}, publisher = {ACM}, timestamp = {2015-03-13T18:46:58.000+0100}, title = {A Technique for Computer Detection and Correction of Spelling Errors}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/363958.363994}, volume = 7, year = 1964 }