关于你的问题，如何在没有大量数据的情况下模仿行为——为什么不使用谷歌收集的大量数据呢?下载谷歌的sarch结果拼写错误的单词，并搜索“Did you mean:”在HTML中。

我猜现在这叫做混搭:-)

嗯…我认为谷歌使用他们庞大的数据语料库(互联网)来做一些严肃的NLP(自然语言处理)。

例如，他们拥有来自整个互联网的大量数据，以至于他们可以计算出三个单词序列出现的次数(称为三元组)。因此，如果他们看到一个句子:“pink frugr concert”，他们可以看到它的点击率很少，然后在语料库中找到最有可能的“pink * concert”。

他们显然只是做了Davide Gualano所说的一种变化，所以一定要阅读那个链接。谷歌当然使用它所知道的所有网页作为一个语料库，这使得它的算法特别有效。

我猜…它可以

寻找词语 如果没有找到，使用一些算法来尝试“猜测”这个词。

可能是来自人工智能的东西，比如Hopfield网络或反向传播网络，或者其他“识别指纹”，恢复损坏的数据，或者Davide已经提到的拼写纠正……

最简单的方法是动态规划。

这是一种从信息检索中借来的算法，在现代生物信息学中大量使用，以查看两个基因序列有多相似。

最优解采用动态规划和递归。

这是一个已经解决的问题，有很多解决方案。在你找到一些开源代码之前，一直在你的周围打转。

通常，产品拼写纠正器会使用几种方法来提供拼写建议。一些人:

Decide on a way to determine whether spelling correction is required. These may include insufficient results, results which are not specific or accurate enough (according to some measure), etc. Then: Use a large body of text or a dictionary, where all, or most are known to be correctly spelled. These are easily found online, in places such as LingPipe. Then to determine the best suggestion you look for a word which is the closest match based on several measures. The most intuitive one is similar characters. What has been shown through research and experimentation is that two or three character sequence matches work better. (bigrams and trigrams). To further improve results, weigh a higher score upon a match at the beginning, or end of the word. For performance reasons, index all these words as trigrams or bigrams, so that when you are performing a lookup, you convert to n-gram, and lookup via hashtable or trie. Use heuristics related to potential keyboard mistakes based on character location. So that "hwllo" should be "hello" because 'w' is close to 'e'. Use a phonetic key (Soundex, Metaphone) to index the words and lookup possible corrections. In practice this normally returns worse results than using n-gram indexing, as described above. In each case you must select the best correction from a list. This may be a distance metric such as levenshtein, the keyboard metric, etc. For a multi-word phrase, only one word may be misspelled, in which case you can use the remaining words as context in determining a best match.

这是我找到的最好的答案，由谷歌的研究总监Peter Norvig实施和描述的拼写纠正器。

如果你想了解更多这背后的理论，你可以阅读他书中的章节。

该算法的思想基于统计机器学习。