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mrcactu5 on March 28, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Write a Spelling Corrector (2007)

I remember the spell-checker being harder than it looks. You have to train a Naive Bayes classifier to "recognize" misspelled words.

I can't access the link right now... OK: http://web.archive.org/web/20140217174744/http://norvig.com/...

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