On Dec 22, 2007, at 2:47 PM, Nancy Cochran wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Are there better, perhaps more reliable, perhaps back-end ways of
> dealing
> with spelling variations?
Maybe, but you need to define more specifically what you mean by
better and reliably. What qualities of a spelling variation tool do
you think are desirable?
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Eric Lease Morgan
University Libraries of Notre Dame
Received on Sat Dec 22 2007 - 15:13:05 EST