Automatic spelling correction in scientific and scholarly text
Joseph J. Pollock, Antonio Zamora · Communications of the ACM · 1984
An automatic spelling correcting algorithm corrects most of the 50,000 misspellings culled from 25,000,000 words of text from seven scientific and scholarly databases.It uses a similarity key to identify words in a large dictionary that are most similar to a particular misspelling, and'then an error-reversal test to select from these the most plausible correction(s).