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How to find Mrs. Billington? Approximate string matching applied to misspelled names Export

by: Gerhard Brey, Manolis Christodoulakis
In Digital Humanities 2008 (June 2008), pp. 68-69.

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In this paper we discuss some of the problems that arise when searching for misspelled names. We suggest a solution to overcome these and to disambiguate the names found.


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