Retrieval of Misspelled Names in an Airlines Passenger Record System This paper discusses the limited problem of recognition and retrieval of a given misspelled name from among a roster of several hundred names, such as the reservation inventory for a given flight of a large jet airliner. A program has been developed and operated on the Telefile (a stored-program core and drum memory solid-state computer) which will retrieve passengers' records successfully, despite significant misspellings either at original entry time or at retrieval time. The procedure involves an automatic scoring technique which matches the names in a condensed form. Only those few names most closely resembling the requested name, with their phone numbers annexed, are presented for the agents final manual selecton. The program has successfully isolated and retrieved names which were subjected to a number of unusual (as well as usual) misspellings. CACM March, 1962 Davidson, L. CA620313 JB March 20, 1978 2:59 PM 1112 5 619 1592 5 619 2111 5 619 2339 5 619 440 5 619 619 5 619 619 5 619 619 5 619 830 6 619 982 6 619 1112 6 619 1112 6 619 1112 6 619 1592 6 619 1592 6 619 440 6 619 619 6 619 619 6 619 619 6 619 619 6 619 619 6 619