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Questions tagged [misspelling]

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Was the misspelling of the HTTP field name Referer intentional?

I read recently (I can't recall where, or I'd return to that source) that the misspelling of HTTP header field name Referer in the specification was intentional. Is that accurate? If so, why?
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Visual Studio 2013 spell checker

I have dyslexia and am starting my first collaborative project with other students using the IDE Visual Studio 2013. I fear that my miss spellings may cause errors and annoyance to the rest of the team, so I wish to keep my spelling mistakes to a…
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Dealing with wrong spelling when matching text strings in R

I'm collecting survey data (using open data kit), and my field team, bless their hearts, sometimes get a bit creative with the spelling of people's names. So I have a "correct" respondent name, as well as an age variable for some of the records…
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What is this history window in vim called?

Sometime when I execute a vim command, a history like window appears out of nowhere. Anyone knows what it does, what it's called and how to make it appear?
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Find closest match for misspelled city names?

I have a list of cities that have numerous incorrect spelling for the same city. One city is misspelled 18 times! I am trying to clean this up but its taking hours. Is there some algorithm that might "guess" at the valid city name for each of…
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fuzzy search in full text search

I'm using postgresql to Full Text Search and I am finding that users will not receive results if there are misspellings.I want to use fuzzy search and full text search together.For example I could not combine Trigram indexes and full text search.…
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How to do postal addresses fuzzy matching?

I would like to know how to match postal addresses when their format differ or when one of them is mispelled. So far I've found different solutions but I think that they are quite old and not very efficient. I'm sure some better methods exist, so…
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How to get back auto-completion after misspelling a method name in Eclipse?

When I am coding Java in Eclipse I like the auto-completion feature. With that I mean the popup with method-names that comes when you start typing in a method name for an object. Or maybe it's called something different, i.e. method-suggestions? But…
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MySQL query that can handle missing characters

I'm trying to improve my MySQL query. SELECT gamename FROM giveaway WHERE gamename LIKE '$query' I got an input that consists of URL's that are formed…
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How can I resolve write errors that I have in my data?

I have a dataframe (more than 1 million rows) that has an open text columns for customer can write whatever they want. Misspelled words appear frequently and I'm trying to group comments that are grammatically the same. For…
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Text classification using BERT - how to handle misspelled words

I am not sure if this is the best place to submit that kind of question, perhaps CrossValdation would be a better place. I am working on a text multiclass classification problem. I built a model based on BERT concept implemented in PyTorch…
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Python Spelling replacement packages, how to add words to dictionary?

I have trialled a number of options for a quick spelling replacer, namely autocorrect, spellchecker and textblob. However, I have some words that are being altered as they are not in the dictionary, for example Zumba. I have tried adding to the…
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What are some evaluations for a spelling correction model?

I've been looking into spelling correction models and I'm trying to find some evaluation metrics. If you consider false negatives to be trying to fix an already correct word and false positives to be missing an error, then you could calculate…
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Does the App Engine Search Api allow for partial and misspelled matching

My forum uses the Google App Engine Search Api. So naturally I would like to be able to find partial and misspelled words. But the api does not do that. Does anyone know work arounds or better alternatives to this api? For the partial match I can…
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How to "redefine search" or correct "misspelling" from the database

I want to add new feature to the search in my website. I'm using PHP and MySQL. MySQL database containing a table to the items that the user will search for, for each item there is a "keyword" column that's comma separated keywords "EXAMPLE:…
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