Autocompletion is a useful feature when a user is doing a look up from a table of records. With every letter being typed, autocompletion displays strings that are present in the table containing as their pre\ufb01x the search string typed so far. Just as there is a need for making the lookup operation tolerant to typing errors, we argue that autocompletion also needs to be error-tolerant. In this paper, we take a \ufb01rst step towards addressing this problem. We capture input typing errors via edit distance. We show that a naive approach of invoking an o\ufb04ine edit distance matching algorithm at each step performs poorly and present more e\ufb03cient algorithms. Our empirical evaluation demonstrates the e\ufb00ectiveness of our algorithms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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