There is a strong correlation between spelling errors and web text content quality. Using our lexical quality measure, based in a small corpus of spelling errors, we present an estimation of the lexical quality of the main Social Media sites. This paper presents an updated and complete analysis of the lexical quality of Social Media written in English and Spanish, including how lexical quality ...

Pitch spelling addresses the question of how to derive traditional score notation from pitch classes or MIDI numbers. In this paper, we motivate that the diatonic notes in a piece of music are easier to spell correctly than the non-diatonic notes. Then we investigate 1) whether the generally used method of calculating the proportion of correctly spelled notes to evaluate pitch spelling models c...

Native languages (L1s) are tacitly assumed to be complete and stable in adults. Here we report an unexpected individual variation in judgment of L1 regarding Japanese sentences including honorification, and further clarify its neural basis with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). By contrasting an honorification judgment task with a spelling judgment task, the lower performance group ...

The tone languages of sub-Saharan Africa raise challenging questions for the design of new writing systems. Marking too much or too little tone can have grave consequences for the usability of an orthography. Orthography development, past and present, rests on a raft of sociolinguistic issues having little to do with the technical phonological concerns that usually preoccupy orthographers. Some...

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We present a comprehensive Bangla spelling checker that improves the quality of suggestions for misspelled words. The complex rules for Bangla spelling presents a significant challenge in producing suggestions for a misspelled word when employing the traditional methods; one must take phonetic similarity into account for suggested alternatives to be reasonably accurate. In Bangla there are seve...

Recently, there has been a growing interest in historical language corpora. Projects to create such corpora exist for a variety of languages such as German (Scheible et al. 2011), Spanish (SánchezMarco et al. 2010), or Slovene (Erjavec 2012). Annotation of these corpora is complicated by the fact that specialized tools for these language stages are typically not available. A common approach is ...

The SelfSpell programs provide a multimedia environment for dyslexic children which uses synthesised speech to augment the written text. In earlier research we established that by encouraging users to enter a rule to help them remember how to spell each word, Selfspell was very effective in improving spelling ability. The evaluation study reported here confirmed the efficacy of the rule-based a...

The application of the formalism of two-level morphology to Basque and its use in the elaboration of the XUXEN spell ing checker/corrector are described. This application is intended to cover a large part of the language. Because Basque is a highly inflected language, the approach of spelling checking and correction has been conceived as a by-product of a general purpose morphological analyzer/...

The problem of extending the lexicon of words in an automatic speech recognition system is commonly referred to as the the new word problem. When encountered in the context of an embedded speech recognition system this problem can be be divided into the following sub-problems. First, identify the presence of a new word. Second, acquire a phonetic transcription of the new word. Third, acquire th...