A Hybrid Approach to Automatic Corpus Generation for Chinese Spelling Check

Dingmin Wang, Yan Song, Jing Li, Jialong Han, Haisong Zhang


Abstract
Chinese spelling check (CSC) is a challenging yet meaningful task, which not only serves as a preprocessing in many natural language processing(NLP) applications, but also facilitates reading and understanding of running texts in peoples’ daily lives. However, to utilize data-driven approaches for CSC, there is one major limitation that annotated corpora are not enough in applying algorithms and building models. In this paper, we propose a novel approach of constructing CSC corpus with automatically generated spelling errors, which are either visually or phonologically resembled characters, corresponding to the OCR- and ASR-based methods, respectively. Upon the constructed corpus, different models are trained and evaluated for CSC with respect to three standard test sets. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the corpus, therefore confirm the validity of our approach.
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D18-1273
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Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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October-November
Year:
2018
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Brussels, Belgium
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EMNLP
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SIGDAT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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2517–2527
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https://aclanthology.org/D18-1273
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D18-1273
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Dingmin Wang, Yan Song, Jing Li, Jialong Han, and Haisong Zhang. 2018. A Hybrid Approach to Automatic Corpus Generation for Chinese Spelling Check. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 2517–2527, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A Hybrid Approach to Automatic Corpus Generation for Chinese Spelling Check (Wang et al., EMNLP 2018)
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 wdimmy/Automatic-Corpus-Generation