Re: A question about Intelligent Systems and using Ruby



From: "Phil Tomson" <ptkwt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> In article <d0fd5d6105092210597d704f9e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Josh Charles <josh.charles@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >It is similar to googles "did you mean aardvark?" when you search for
> >"ardvark." is that considered AI?
>
> Good question. It may not be. Could be simply that they check each of the
> words against a dictionary and it it's not there they check for similar words
> (using Levenstein distance (sp?), for example).

I'd guess something like that, with more popular search
terms weighted most heavily?


Regards,

Bill





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