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INTERACT '93 and CHI '93 conference companion on Human factors in computing systems table of contents
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pages: 83 - 84  
Year of Publication: 1993
ISBN:0-89791-574-7
Authors
D. G. Hendry  MRC Applied Psychology Unit, 15 Chaucer Rd., Cambridge, England CB2 2EF
T. R. G. Green  MRC Applied Psychology Unit, 15 Chaucer Rd., Cambridge, England CB2 2EF
Sponsors
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
NGI : Dutch Computer Soc - Nederlands Genoostschapvoor Informatica
Human Factors Soc : Human Factors Society
IEEE-CS : Computer Society
IFIP : International Federation for Information Processing
SIGCAPH: ACM SIGCAPH Computers and the Physically Handicapped
SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
SIGGROUP: ACM Special Interest Group on Supporting Group Work
Austrian Comp Soc : Austrian Computer Society
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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Burden, V. (1990) An investigation of persistent spelling difficulties in "normal" adult readers. Unpublished PhD thesis: Cambridge University.
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Fred J. Damerau, A technique for computer detection and correction of spelling errors, Communications of the ACM, v.7 n.3, p.171-176, March 1964  [doi>10.1145/363958.363994]
 
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Ellis, A. W. (1984) Spelling and writing. In A. W. Ellis (Ed.) Reading, Writing and Dyslexia: a Cognitive Analysis. London: Edbaum.
 
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Furugori, T. (1990) Improving spelling checkers for Japanese speakers of English. IEEE Trans. on Professional Communication, 33(3), 138-142.
 
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Green, T. R. G and Hendry, D. G. (in preparation) Spelling correctors and spelling mistakes.
 
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MacUser (De~/1992). Advertisement, p. 10.

CITED BY  3
Robert Garfinkel , Elena Fernandez , Ram Gopal, Design of an interactive spell checker: optimizing the list of offered words, Decision Support Systems, v.35 n.3, p.385-397, June 2003
Bente Maegaard, Evaluation of NLP systems, Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics, August 05-09, 1996, Copenhagen, Denmark
Patrizia Paggio , Nancy L. Underwood, Validating the TEMAA LE evaluation methodology: a case study on Danish spelling checkers, Natural Language Engineering, v.4 n.3, p.211-228, September 1998
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