Fast retrieval of electronic messages that contain mistyped words or spelling errors

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 441-451

  Wang, Jason Tsong Li ^a,b   Chang, Chia Yo ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERRORS;

ELECTRONIC MESSAGE; ONLINE AIRLINE RESERVATION SYSTEMS; TEXT EDIT SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031164072     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3477.584951     Document Type: Article

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