System and method for rectifying a typographical error in a text file

摘要

Disclosed is a system for rectifying a typographical error in a text file. The system includes a network generating module for generating a linguistic network of a plurality of words present in the text file. A computation module configured to compute the similarity between each pair of words based on a set of parameters. A weight assignment module for assigning a weight to the edge present between the each pair of words based the set of parameters. A categorization module configured to categorize one or more words present in the linguistic network in a category. A word identification module configured to identify a reference word from the category. A word substitution module configured to substitute each word of the category deemed as erroneous with corresponding reference word for rectifying the typographical error.