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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2007
H. Richard Gail, Ossining, NY (US);
Sidney L. Hantler, Cortland Manor, NY (US);
Meir M. Laker, Spring Valley, NY (US);
Jonathan Lenchner, North Salem, NY (US);
Daniel Milch, Ossining, NY (US);
H. Richard Gail, Ossining, NY (US);
Sidney L. Hantler, Cortland Manor, NY (US);
Meir M. Laker, Spring Valley, NY (US);
Jonathan Lenchner, North Salem, NY (US);
Daniel Milch, Ossining, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
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.