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Revealed: The UK's most misspelled words - so, have you been writing them correctly?

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Khmer Spellchecking: A Holistic Approach

Kong, Marry, Buoy, Rina, Chenda, Sovisal, Taing, Nguonly

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Compared to English and other high-resource languages, spellchecking for Khmer remains an unresolved problem due to several challenges. First, there are misalignments between words in the lexicon and the word segmentation model. Second, a Khmer word can be written in different forms. Third, Khmer compound words are often loosely and easily formed, and these compound words are not always found in the lexicon. Fourth, some proper nouns may be flagged as misspellings due to the absence of a Khmer named-entity recognition (NER) model. Unfortunately, existing solutions do not adequately address these challenges. This paper proposes a holistic approach to the Khmer spellchecking problem by integrating Khmer subword segmentation, Khmer NER, Khmer grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion, and a Khmer language model to tackle these challenges, identify potential correction candidates, and rank the most suitable candidate. Experimental results show that the proposed approach achieves a state-of-the-art Khmer spellchecking accuracy of up to 94.4%, compared to existing solutions. The benchmark datasets for Khmer spellchecking and NER tasks in this study will be made publicly available.


SpeakGer: A meta-data enriched speech corpus of German state and federal parliaments

Lange, Kai-Robin, Jentsch, Carsten

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The application of natural language processing on political texts as well as speeches has become increasingly relevant in political sciences due to the ability to analyze large text corpora which cannot be read by a single person. But such text corpora often lack critical meta information, detailing for instance the party, age or constituency of the speaker, that can be used to provide an analysis tailored to more fine-grained research questions. To enable researchers to answer such questions with quantitative approaches such as natural language processing, we provide the SpeakGer data set, consisting of German parliament debates from all 16 federal states of Germany as well as the German Bundestag from 1947-2023, split into a total of 10,806,105 speeches. This data set includes rich meta data in form of information on both reactions from the audience towards the speech as well as information about the speaker's party, their age, their constituency and their party's political alignment, which enables a deeper analysis. We further provide three exploratory analyses, detailing topic shares of different parties throughout time, a descriptive analysis of the development of the age of an average speaker as well as a sentiment analysis of speeches of different parties with regards to the COVID-19 pandemic.


A Comprehensive Approach to Misspelling Correction with BERT and Levenshtein Distance

Naziri, Amirreza, Zeinali, Hossein

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Writing, as an omnipresent form of human communication, permeates nearly every aspect of contemporary life. Consequently, inaccuracies or errors in written communication can lead to profound consequences, ranging from financial losses to potentially life-threatening situations. Spelling mistakes, among the most prevalent writing errors, are frequently encountered due to various factors. This research aims to identify and rectify diverse spelling errors in text using neural networks, specifically leveraging the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) masked language model. To achieve this goal, we compiled a comprehensive dataset encompassing both non-real-word and real-word errors after categorizing different types of spelling mistakes. Subsequently, multiple pre-trained BERT models were employed. To ensure optimal performance in correcting misspelling errors, we propose a combined approach utilizing the BERT masked language model and Levenshtein distance. The results from our evaluation data demonstrate that the system presented herein exhibits remarkable capabilities in identifying and rectifying spelling mistakes, often surpassing existing systems tailored for the Persian language.


Automatic Spell Checker and Correction for Under-represented Spoken Languages: Case Study on Wolof

Cissé, Thierno Ibrahima, Sadat, Fatiha

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

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.


Look Ma, Only 400 Samples! Revisiting the Effectiveness of Automatic N-Gram Rule Generation for Spelling Normalization in Filipino

Flores, Lorenzo Jaime Yu, Radev, Dragomir

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

With 84.75 million Filipinos online, the ability for models to process online text is crucial for developing Filipino NLP applications. To this end, spelling correction is a crucial preprocessing step for downstream processing. However, the lack of data prevents the use of language models for this task. In this paper, we propose an N-Gram + Damerau Levenshtein distance model with automatic rule extraction. We train the model on 300 samples, and show that despite limited training data, it achieves good performance and outperforms other deep learning approaches in terms of accuracy and edit distance. Moreover, the model (1) requires little compute power, (2) trains in little time, thus allowing for retraining, and (3) is easily interpretable, allowing for direct troubleshooting, highlighting the success of traditional approaches over more complex deep learning models in settings where data is unavailable.


Autocorrect Feature using NLP in Python

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This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the field of artificial intelligence that relates lingual to Computer Science. I am assuming that you have understood the basic concepts of NLP. So we will move ahead. Have you ever wondered about how the Autocorrect features work on the keyboard of a Smartphone?


Challenges Encountered in Turkish Natural Language Processing Studies

Tohma, Kadir, Kutlu, Yakup

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

It aims to analyze a language element such as writing or speaking with software and convert it into information. Considering that each language has its own grammatical rules and vocabulary diversity, the complexity of the studies in this field is somewhat understandable. For instance, Turkish is a very interesting language in many ways. Examples of this are agglutinative word structure, consonant/vowel harmony, a large number of productive derivational morphemes (practically infinite vocabulary), derivation and syntactic relations, a complex emphasis on vocabulary and phonological rules. In this study, the interesting features of Turkish in terms of natural language processing are mentioned. In addition, summary info about natural language processing techniques, systems and various sources developed for Turkish are given. Keywords: Natural language processing, Turkish natural language processing, NLP Article history: Received 06 June 2020, Accepted 26 November 2020, Available online 27 November 2020 Introduction Language is undoubtedly the main factor in communication between people. Natural language processing studies aim at the most effective use of language factor in humancomputer communication. Natural Language Processing is a subcategory of artificial intelligence and linguistics.


Autocorrect

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Autocorrect is the saving grace for us all. The number of times I've gone to type a message and it would come out as if I am drunk then autocorrect intercedes on my behalf -- Oh, how I love you autocorrect (sometimes). To define Autocorrect more formally, it is a software function that suggests or makes corrections for spelling or grammatical errors automatically whilst we type. We all use autocorrect, but this post will teach you how it works. However, in these notes, we will only be covering spelling errors and not contextual errors.


Spelling Recommender With NLTK

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We showed how you can build an autocorrect based on Jaccard distance by returning also the probability of each word. We will create three different spelling recommenders, that each takes a list of misspelled words and recommends a correctly spelled word for every word in the list. For every misspelled word, the recommender should find the word in correct_spellings that has the shortest distance and starts with the same letter as the misspelled word, and return that word as a recommendation. Note: Each of the two different recommenders will use a different distance measure. Also, we will work with Q-grams which are equivalent to N-grams but they referred to characters instead of tokens.