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Autocorrection, also known as text replacement, replace-as-you-type, text expander or simply autocorrect, is an automatic data validation function commonly found in ...
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A basic spell checker carries out the following processes: It scans the text and extracts the words contained in it. It then compares each word with a known list of correctly spelled words (i.e. a dictionary).
In statistics, the autocorrelation of a real or complex random process is the Pearson correlation between values of the process at different times, as a function of the two times or of the time lag.
Open the Wikipedia article, select "edit" from the menu atop the page or section, select and copy the article source, paste it into a Word or Writer document, follow the red (spelling) and green (grammar) markers, and correct mistakes as necessary. To enable spellchecking in Microsoft Word, go to the Tools menu and enable "Grammar and ...
Teitelman's DWIM package "correct[ed] errors automatically or with minor user intervention", [2] similarly to autocorrection for natural language. Teitelman and his Xerox PARC colleague Larry Masinter later described the philosophy of DWIM in the Interlisp programming environment (the successor of BBN Lisp):
When using AWB, you can refresh the typo list by selecting "File → Refresh status/typos" (CTRL-R). This is useful when you are modifying the typo list on Wikipedia while using AWB to test/process the modification (but basic testing should first be done offline—e.g. by using AWB's Regex Tester or "Find and replace").
A common argument in discussions is that a particular action is correct, accurate, or some similar term, or that the current situation is wrong.. For example, in move discussions, it may be argued that because an official name has changed, the article title should change too; often this is the entire rationale for a move request.