Companies acquire personal information from phone, World Wide Web, or email in order to sell or send an advertisement about their product. However, when this information is acquired, moved, copied or edited, the data may loose its quality. Often, the use of data administrators or a tool that has limited capabilities to correct the mistyped…

The Spelling Error Detection Correction Project completed at Chemical Abstracts Service, which extracted over 50,000 misspellings from approximately 25,000,000 words of scientific and scholarly text, shows that expected incidence of misspelling is 0.2 percent, and most misspellings are "typos," 90 percent of which are unlikely to be…