619	 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.
