id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 5245 Tagliacozzo, Renata; Kochen, Manfred; Rosenberg, Lawrence Orthographic Error Patterns of Author Names in Catalog Searches 1970-06-01 9 .pdf application/pdf 3062 299 74 ORTHOGRAPHIC ERROR PATTERNS OF AUTHOR NAMES An investigation of error patterns in author names based on data from a Table 1 gives the distribution of incorrect and/or incomplete author citations. The error in this case was not in incompleteness or misspelling of the author's name, but in the identity of the POSITION OF ERRORS IN AUTHOR NAMES incorrect author citations from all three libraries, where E is the position Table 2 shows that about half the incorrect author names had errors error consists in the addition of a letter to the end of the correct name, the distribution of spelling errors in relation to letter position closely DISTRIBUTION OF ERRORS AND LENGTH OF NAMES Probability of Errors in Recall of Author Names of a Given TYPE OF ERROR IN AUTHOR NAMES Errors which occurred in the spelling of the last names of authors were Single-Letter Replacement Errors ./cache/5245.pdf ./txt/5245.txt