Generalized character-level spelling error correction

Noura Farra, Nadi Tomeh, Alla Rozovskaya, Nizar Habash

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Abstract

We present a generalized discriminative model for spelling error correction which targets character-level transformations. While operating at the character level, the model makes use of wordlevel and contextual information. In contrast to previous work, the proposed approach learns to correct a variety of error types without guidance of manually-selected constraints or language-specific features. We apply the model to correct errors in Egyptian Arabic dialect text, achieving 65% reduction in word error rate over the input baseline, and improving over the earlier state-of-the-art system.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationLong Papers
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages161-167
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)9781937284732
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2014 - Baltimore, MD, United States
Duration: Jun 22 2014Jun 27 2014

Publication series

Name52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2014 - Proceedings of the Conference
Volume2

Other

Other52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBaltimore, MD
Period6/22/146/27/14

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Linguistics and Language

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