Build Your First Autocorrection without Machine Learning

Author(s): Thao Vu

Originally published on Towards AI.

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Spell correction is everywhere. When I was writing this article, Grammarly is quietly helping me with the typos. When you input a query to an e-commerce website, it will first go to the correct phase to better match the desired items’ title.

Spell correction is no doubt essential for any written communication. It enhances our communication, maintains our professionalism and boosts our productivity. When considering building one, we may quickly come to the one-sizes-fit-all solution: deep learning. However, deep learning is only sometimes the optimal choice.

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