Spelling Correction: from Two-Level Morphology to Open Source

Iñaki Alegria, Klara Ceberio, Nerea Ezeiza, Aitor Soroa, Gregorio Hernandez


Abstract
Basque is a highly inflected and agglutinative language (Alegria et al., 1996). Two-level morphology has been applied successfully to this kind of languages and there are two-level based descriptions for very different languages. After doing the morphological description for a language, it is easy to develop a spelling checker/corrector for this language. However, what happens if we want to use the speller in the “free world” (OpenOffice, Mozilla, emacs, LaTeX, etc.)? Ispell and similar tools (aspell, hunspell, myspell) are the usual mechanisms for these purposes, but they do not fit the two-level model. In the absence of two-level morphology based mechanisms, an automatic conversion from two-level description to hunspell is described in this paper.
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Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)
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2008
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Marrakech, Morocco
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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Iñaki Alegria, Klara Ceberio, Nerea Ezeiza, Aitor Soroa, and Gregorio Hernandez. 2008. Spelling Correction: from Two-Level Morphology to Open Source. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), Marrakech, Morocco. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Spelling Correction: from Two-Level Morphology to Open Source (Alegria et al., LREC 2008)
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