Searching for Historical Word-Forms in a Database of 17th-Century English Text Using Spelling-Correction Methods.

Alexander M. Robertson, Peter Willett: Searching for Historical Word-Forms in a Database of 17th-Century English Text Using Spelling-Correction Methods. SIGIR 1992: 256-265

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigir/RobertsonW92,
  author    = {Alexander M. Robertson and
               Peter Willett 0002},
  editor    = {Nicholas J. Belkin and
               Peter Ingwersen and
               Annelise Mark Pejtersen},
  title     = {Searching for Historical Word-Forms in a Database of 17th-Century
               English Text Using Spelling-Correction Methods},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference
               on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Copenhagen,
               Denmark, June 21-24, 1992},
  publisher = {ACM},
  year      = {1992},
  isbn      = {0-89791-523-2},
  pages     = {256-265},
  ee        = {db/conf/sigir/RobertsonW92.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/sigir/92},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

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This paper discusses the application of algorithmic spelling-correction techniques to the identification of those words in a database of 17^th century English text that are most similar to a query word in modern English. The experiments have used n-gram matching, non-phonetic coding and dynamic programming methods for spelling correction, and have demonstrated that high-recall searches can be carried out, although some of the searches are very demanding of computational resources. The methods are, in principle, applicable to historical texts in many languages and from many diffeent periods.

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Nicholas J. Belkin, Peter Ingwersen, Annelise Mark Pejtersen (Eds.): Proceedings of the 15th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Copenhagen, Denmark, June 21-24, 1992. ACM 1992, ISBN 0-89791-523-2
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