• DocumentCode
    961096
  • Title

    A Method for the Correction of Garbled Words Based on the Levenshtein Metric

  • Author

    Okuda, Teruo ; Tanaka, Eiichi ; Kasai, Tamotsu

  • Author_Institution
    Systems Design Section, Systems Development Department, Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, Japan.
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1976
  • Firstpage
    172
  • Lastpage
    178
  • Abstract
    In this paper we propose a new method for correcting garbled words based on Levenshtein distance and weighted Levenshtein distance. We can correct not only substitution errors, but also insertion errors and deletion errors by this method. According to the results of simulation on nearly 1000 high occurrence English words, higher error correcting rates can be achieved by this method than any other method tried to date. Hardware realization of the method is possible, though it is rather complicated.
  • Keywords
    Computer simulation; Error correction; Hamming distance; Handwriting recognition; Hardware; Pattern recognition; Psychoacoustic models; Speech recognition; Tin; Correction rate; Levenshtein distance; deletion error; garbled words correction; insertion error; miscorrection rate; reject rate; speech recognition; spelling correction; substitution error;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computers, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9340
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TC.1976.5009232
  • Filename
    5009232