Turkish Spelling Error Detection and Correction by Using Word N-grams

Dalkılıç G., Çebi Y.

5th International Conference on Soft Computing, Computing with Words and Perceptions in System Analysis, Decision and Control, Famagusta, CYPRUS, 2 - 04 September 2009, pp.63-66 identifier

  • Publication Type: Conference Paper / Full Text
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  • City: Famagusta
  • Country: CYPRUS
  • Page Numbers: pp.63-66
  • Dokuz Eylül University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

N-grams can be used for spelling check and correction processes. The first step to use n-grams is to find the language specific n-grams by using a corpus. But a corpus cannot be big enough to contain all the possible word n-grams. Back-off smoothing technique is one of the techniques to estimate the frequency of the unknown n-grams in a corpus. By using Back-off technique and the Minimum Edit Distance (MED) algorithm, a program was developed to check spelling errors and suggest corrections in a sentence typed in Turkish. The results were compared with the results of Microsoft Word 2003 proofing tools, and found to be much better.