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Table 8 Numbers of proposed corrections with the Levenshtein edit distance at different thresholds

From: Matching health information seekers' queries to medical terms

Thresholds

< 0.05

< 0.1

< 0.15

< 0.2

< 0.25

< 0.3

< 0.35

< 0.4

< 0.45

< 0.5

< 0.6

< 0.7

< 0.8

< 0.9

Suggestions

14

73

118

176

273

549

1,187

2,265

4,707

8,448

59,844

656,291

5,368,088

13,695,608

Nb by query

0.08

0.44

0.72

1.07

1.67

3.36

7.28

13.89

28.87

51.83

367.14

4,026.32

32,933

84,022