This work details the experiments carried out using the Indri search engine for the ad hoc retrieval task in the TREC 2007 Million Query Track. We investigate using proximity feat...
We propose two hashing-based solutions to the problem of fast and effective personal names spelling correction in People Search applications. The key idea behind our methods is to...
An increasing number of language and speech applications are gearing towards the use of texts from online sources as input. Despite such rise, not much work can be found in the as...
Some time in the future, some spelling error correction system will correct all the errors, and only the errors. We need evaluation metrics that will tell us when this has been ac...
This paper describes a new program, correct, which takes words rejected by the Unix spell program, proposes a list of candidate corrections, and sorts them by probability. The pro...
Mark D. Kernighan, Kenneth Ward Church, William A....