Open AccessOrthographic Error Patterns of Author Names in Catalog Searches
Author(s) -
Renata Tagliacozzo,
Manfred Kochen,
Lawrence Rosenberg
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
information technology and libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.502
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5226
pISSN - 0730-9295
DOI - 10.6017/ital.v3i2.5245
Subject(s) - spelling , computer science , transposition (logic) , orthographic projection , orthography , information retrieval , natural language processing , linguistics , artificial intelligence , reading (process) , philosophy
An investigation of error patterns in author names based on data from a survey of library catalog searches. Position of spelling errors was noted and related to length of name. Probability of a name having a spelling error was found to increase with length of name. Nearly half of the spelling mistakes were replacement errors; following, in order of decreasing frequency, were omission, addition, and transposition errors