Collection and characterization of spelling errors in scientific and scholarly text
作者:
J. J. Pollock,
A. Zamora,
期刊:
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
(WILEY Available online 1983)
卷期:
Volume 34,
issue 1
页码: 51-58
ISSN:0002-8231
年代: 1983
DOI:10.1002/asi.4630340108
出版商: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractThe SPEEDCOP (SPEIIing Error Detection correction Project) project recently completed at Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) extracted over 50,000 misspellings from approximately 25,000,000 words of text from seven scientific and scholarly databases. The misspellings were automatically classified and the error types analyzed. The results, which were consistent over the different databases, showed that the expected incidence of misspelling is 0.2%, that 90–95% of spelling errors have only a single mistake, that substitution is homogeneous while transposition is heterogeneous, that omission is the commonest type of misspelling, and that inadvertent doubling of a letter is the most important cause of insertion errors. The more frequently a letter occurs in the text, the more likely it is to be involved in a spelling error. Most misspellings collected by SPEEDCOP are of the type colloquially referred to as “typos” and approximately 90% are unlikely to be repeated in normal spans of
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