English Language Spelling Correction as an Information Retrieval Task Using Wikipedia Search Statistics (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing spelling correction tools lack training or annotated data sets to perform . many spelling correction utilities suffer due to the size and quality of dictionaries available to aid correction. |
| Approach: | They propose a dynamic spelling correction tool that uses the Wikipedia dataset search API to aid misspelled term identification and automatic replacement. |
| Outcome: | The proposed spelling correction tool performs comparable to the industry-standard spelling correction algorithm, Hunspell. |
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