From: lyndon@orthanc.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Subject: [TUHS] Spell - was tmac: Move macro diagnostics away from `quotes'
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 19:11:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B279A864-6A26-4ED9-9699-0A33F355E6A1@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201711230105.vAN15NI6026629@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>
> On Nov 22, 2017, at 5:05 PM, Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>
> The first one was a fantastic tour de force by Bob Morris,
> called "typo". Aside from the file "eign" of the very most common
> English words, it had no vocabulary. Instead it evaluated the
> likelihood that any particular word came from a source with the
> same letter-trigram frequencies as the document as a whole. The
> words were then printed in increasing order of likelihood. Typos
> tended to come early in the list.
This was written up in the same BSTJ number that talked about many of the troff pre-processors and other DWB tools, IIRC. Was that the "big" UNIX edition? Either way, the paper is well worth a read if you can find it (and I'm sorry I can't recall the title right now).
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-23 1:05 Doug McIlroy
2017-11-23 3:11 ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2017-11-24 9:44 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-11-25 3:25 ` Bakul Shah
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2017-11-24 15:13 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-24 17:24 ` Will Senn
2017-11-24 15:05 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2017-11-24 17:01 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-24 18:06 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2017-11-24 18:17 ` Henry Bent
2017-11-24 20:18 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-24 22:46 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-24 22:57 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-22 2:34 [TUHS] Spell - was tmac: Move macro diagnostics away from `quotes\' Doug McIlroy
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