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Totally agree, I was surprised to really get into a checker program in a dead language. Norvig writes really good stuff, check out his article on spelling corre
by kanwisher 15y ago
Totally agree, I was surprised to really get into a checker program in a dead language. Norvig writes really good stuff, check out his article on spelling correction http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html . And of course video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvplcQ41_uI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvplcQ41_uI
- rudiger 15y agoI have to play Devil's advocate here. An interesting spelling corrector does not place someone in the annals of computer science history as "one of the most influential computer scientists of the post-Turing era."
- angrycoder 15y agoThe spell checker is an accessible example of his work, not his entire body of work.
- EliAndrewC 15y agoI think that the spelling corrector was cited to support the grandparent's assertion that Norvig can "communicate them so well that you feel it was so obvious that you should have found it immediately".
- jshen 15y agoNot sure if you know, but he wrote the canonical AI book, and another amazing book on AI.