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Spelling correction for an intelligent tutoring system

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Computing in the 90's (Great Lakes CS 1989)

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Our spelling correction program is part of a system for understanding illformed input in an intelligent tutoring system for medical students. Speed and user-friendliness were the most important considerations in the design. The system can correct most kinds of spelling errors including order reversal, missing characters, added characters, and character substitutions. It also handles novel abbreviations and word boundary errors. It is implemented on a Xerox 1108 AI machine in Interlisp-D. The lexicon is stored in a trie structure to speed up searching. We provide the students with a full-screen editor and an input tracer to simplify the input process as much as possible.

This work was supported by the Cognitive Science Program, Office of Naval Research under Grant No. N00014-89-J-1952, Grant Authority Identification Number NR4422554 to Illinois Institute of Technology. The content does not reflect the position or policy of the government and no official endorsement should be inferred.

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  1. Illinois Institute of Technology, 60616, Chicago, Illinois

    Yoon Hee Lee & Martha Evens

  2. Rush Medical College, 60612, Chicago, Illinois

    Joel A. Michael & Allen A. Rovick

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  1. Yoon Hee Lee
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  2. Martha Evens
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Naveed A. Sherwani Elise de Doncker John A. Kapenga

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Lee, Y.H., Evens, M., Michael, J.A., Rovick, A.A. (1991). Spelling correction for an intelligent tutoring system. In: Sherwani, N.A., de Doncker, E., Kapenga, J.A. (eds) Computing in the 90's. Great Lakes CS 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 507. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0038476

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