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I am wondering if programs which search a document and provide alternative spellings, punctuation, etc. are categorized under a certain name? Do programmers have a special, recognizable name for those sorts of search-retrieve-offer alternatives programs that is special to the programming community?

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Posted 25-Oct-10 14:16pm

redkudu

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Nish Nishant · Answer 1 · 2010-10-25T14:28:00

Do you mean spell checkers?

Updated answer - in reply to your 2nd post:

They would certainly be called spell checkers in the programming world too. Internally a spell checker implementation would use all kinds of data structures like text parsers, dictionaries, regular expressions etc. And at the UI level, they'd have context menus, and fancy spelling suggestion dialogs and other little things. But they'd still be called spell checkers.

Ajay Vijayvargiya · Answer 2 · 2010-10-28T05:59:00

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One may also call them as Artificial Intelligent Systems.

Posted 28-Oct-10 5:59am

Ajay Vijayvargiya

redkudu · Answer 3 · 2010-10-25T14:33:00

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Yes, probably so, although I was wondering whether they have another name among programmers - as a layperson I know what a spellchecker is. But I was wondering if those sorts of search/replace programs had a different name among developers. I know it's a strange question - I'm looking for lingo. Perhaps they do not have anything special for it - which makes it easier on me!

Thanks, Nishant.

Posted 25-Oct-10 14:33pm

redkudu

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Nish Nishant 25-Oct-10 20:51pm

I've updated my answer above as multiple answers are frowned upon here (for some reason).

Sauro Viti 26-Oct-10 2:45am

Please, don't post fake answers; add your comments to existing answers instead...