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		nl on April 25, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to write a spelling corrector (2016) This is a great technique to know. I’ve used a variant to segment Twitter hash tags into meaningful words, which is a surprisingly hard thing to do.

abecedarius on April 25, 2018 [–]

He has that covered too! http://norvig.com/ngrams/

But yeah, I tackled the same problem (for Flickr tags) and did not at first use the "obvious" algorithm; I did something slower and suboptimal.

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