@inproceedings{cisse-sadat-2023-automatic,
title = "Automatic Spell Checker and Correction for Under-represented Spoken Languages: Case Study on {W}olof",
author = "Ciss{\'e}, Thierno Ibrahima and
Sadat, Fatiha",
editor = "Mabuya, Rooweither and
Mthobela, Don and
Setaka, Mmasibidi and
Van Zaanen, Menno",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023)",
month = may,
year = "2023",
address = "Dubrovnik, Croatia",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.rail-1.1",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.rail-1.1",
pages = "1--10",
abstract = "This paper presents a spell checker and correction tool specifically designed for Wolof, an under-represented spoken language in Africa. The proposed spell checker leverages a combination of a trie data structure, dynamic programming, and the weighted Levenshtein distance to generate suggestions for misspelled words. We created novel linguistic resources for Wolof, such as a lexicon and a corpus of misspelled words, using a semi-automatic approach that combines manual and automatic annotation methods. Despite the limited data available for the Wolof language, the spell checker{'}s performance showed a predictive accuracy of 98.31{\%} and a suggestion accuracy of 93.33{\%}.Our primary focus remains the revitalization and preservation of Wolof as an Indigenous and spoken language in Africa, providing our efforts to develop novel linguistic resources. This work represents a valuable contribution to the growth of computational tools and resources for the Wolof language and provides a strong foundation for future studies in the automatic spell checking and correction field.",
}
Markdown (Informal)
[Automatic Spell Checker and Correction for Under-represented Spoken Languages: Case Study on Wolof](https://aclanthology.org/2023.rail-1.1) (Cissé & Sadat, RAIL 2023)
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