Does spell-checking software need a warning label?

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 82-86

  Galletta, Dennis F ^a   Durcikova, Alexandra ^b   Everard, Andrea ^c   Jones, Brian M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY; FALSE NEGATIVES; FALSE POSITIVES; LANGUAGE-CHECKING SOFTWARE;

CONTEXT FREE LANGUAGES; ERROR CORRECTION; ERROR DETECTION; FEEDBACK; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; RESEARCH; USER INTERFACES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 21644431638     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1070838.1070841     Document Type: Review

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