Abstract
S-capade (spelling correction aimed at particularly deviant errors) is a phonemic distance based spellchecking tool (Source code repository may be found in the references section [35].) intended for the correction of misspellings made by children. Whilst typographic misspellings typically deviate from the target by only one or two characters, children’s misspellings tend to be more phonetic. They are influenced both by how the child perceives the pronunciation of a word and by the letters they choose to represent that pronunciation. As such, these misspellings are particularly deviant from the target and can negatively impact the performance of conventional spellcheckers. In this paper we demonstrate that S-capade is capable of correcting a significant portion of misspellings made by children where conventional correction tools fail.
E. O’Neill and R. Young—Both the authors have equal contribution to this paper.
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Throughout this paper we use the ARPAbet notation when referring to phonemes.
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This work was supported with the financial support of the Science Foundation Ireland grant 13/RC/2094 to Lero - the SFI Research Centre for Software (www.lero.ie). The ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology (www.adaptcentre.ie) is funded under the SFI Research Centres Programme (Grant 13/RC/2106). The authors would like to thank the team at Zeeko (https://zeeko.ie/) for supporting their research.
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O’Neill, E., Young, R., Thiaville, E., MacCarthy, M., Carson-Berndsen, J., Ventresque, A. (2020). S-Capade: Spelling Correction Aimed at Particularly Deviant Errors. In: Espinosa-Anke, L., Martín-Vide, C., Spasić, I. (eds) Statistical Language and Speech Processing. SLSP 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12379. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59430-5_7
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