International Business Machines Corporation

H Richard Gail

Meir M Laker

Sidney L Hantler

Daniel Milch

Jonathan Lenchner

George B Leeman, Jr

Methods and apparatus are provided for automatically detecting spelling errors in one or more documents, such as documents being processed for the creation of a lexicon According to one aspect of the invention, a spelling error is detected in one or more documents by determining if at least one given word in the one or more documents satisfies a predefined misspelling criteria, wherein the predefined misspelling criteria comprises the at least one given word having a frequency below a predefined low threshold and the at least one given word being within a predefined edit distance of one or more other words in the one or more documents having a frequency above a predefined high threshold; and identifying a given word as a potentially misspelled word if the given word satisfies the predefined misspelling criteria.

Method and apparatus for automatic detection of spelling errors in one or more documents

Faults and errors are diagnosed from a repository of directed graphs. Subsets of all the possible questions and answers in the fault diagnosis process are encoded as directed graphs. Downloading subsets from a repository to a remote user substantially reduces the number of transmissions between the user and the repository.

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