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Automatic Rule Acquisition for Spelling Correction

Published 8 July 1997
Lidia Mangu, Eric Brill
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TL;DR

This paper describes a new approach to automatically learning linguistic knowledge for spelling correction that is captured in a small set of easily understood rules, as opposed to a large set of opaque features and weights.

Abstract

This paper describes a new approach to automatically learning linguistic knowledge for spelling correction. A major feature of this approach is the fact that the acquired knowledge is captured in a small set of easily understood rules, as opposed to a large set of opaque features and weights. A perspicuous representation is advantageous in order to best exploit human intuition to understand and improve upon the acquired knowledge of the system.

Keywords

Computer Science