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>indexing your vocabulary in a Trie

fst (finite state transducer) is even smaller. And for some languages like portuguese where a lot of suffixes are extremely common, the size reduction is dramatic!

>The other interesting thing for me personally about this problem is that there is a statistical angle as well. You will often find words that are of the same edit distance from a given target word

Indeed.

http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~klinden/pubs/PirinenLrec2010.pd...



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