Are there better, perhaps more reliable, perhaps back-end ways of dealing
with spelling variations?
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_ND.EDU>
> To: <NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu>
> Date: 12/21/2007 11:35:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Aqua Browser in beta at U. Chicago
>
> On Dec 21, 2007, at 10:05 AM, Prestamo, Anne wrote:
>
> > We implemented AquaBrowser last summer. We were astounded at the
> > number of "variant spellings" that appeared the Word Cloud, and
> > initially thought that our catalogers would be deluged with
> > requests to make corrections in our records. As we investigated
> > further we realized that a lot of the spelling variants are
> > legitimate spellings that in our case come largely from two
> > sources: 1) the ~90,000 records for Early English Books online;
> > and 2) the SyndeticsICE searchable tables of contents.
>
>
>
> I had the same experience with my Alex Catalogue where I indexed the
> full text of documents. For example, the work "mississippi" was
> legitimately spelled in a bunch of different ways in the texts. Using
> something like Aspell do find similar spellings turns up very
> interesting results. Try:
>
> http://www.infomotions.com/alex/?cmd=search&query=mississipi
>
> --
> Eric Lease Morgan
> University Libraries of Notre Dame
Received on Sat Dec 22 2007 - 14:48:01 EST