In the last few years, computing environments for human learning have rapidly evolved due to the development of information and communication technologies. However, the use of information technology in automatic correction of spelling errors has become increasingly essential. In this context, we have developed a system for correcting spelling errors in the Arabic language based on language mode...

This paper describes the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) error correction system in the Helping Our Own (HOO) 2012 Shared Task. Our system targets preposition and determiner errors with spelling correction as a pre-processing step. The result shows that spelling correction improves the Detection, Correction, and Recognition Fscores for preposition errors. With regard to preposi...

This work details the experiments carried out using the Indri search engine for the ad hoc retrieval task in the TREC 2007 Million Query Track. We investigate using proximity features for this task, and also explore whether using a simple spelling checker Aspell to correct plausible spelling errors in the noisy queries could help retrieval. Results evaluated by three different approaches are pr...

Despite numerous aphasia and functional imaging studies, the exact correlation between cortical language areas and subcomponents of the linguistic system has not been established. Here, we used functional MRI to identify cortical areas specifically involved in syntactic processing. An experimental design contrasted sentences containing grammatical errors with sentences containing spelling error...

We present the performance of a patient with acquired dysgraphia, DS, who has intact oral spelling (100% correct) but severely impaired written spelling (7% correct). Her errors consisted entirely of well-formed letter substitutions. This striking dissociation is further characterized by consistent preservation of orthographic, as opposed to phonological, length in her written output. This patt...

In this paper, we explore spelling errors as a source of information for detecting the native language of a writer, a previously under-explored area. We note that character n-grams from misspelled words are very indicative of the native language of the author. In combination with other lexical features, spelling error features lead to 1.2% improvement in accuracy on classifying texts in the TOE...

Abstract Can a lack of grammatical knowledge alone be held accountable for the spelling errors that are made homophonous verb forms and do these occur because spellers not apply their knowledge? Three experiments with secondary school pupils were conducted on Dutch weak prefix verbs. The results confirmed many also have great problems identifying forms’ functions. Moreover, direct correlation w...

This paper reports on work carried out to develop a spelling and grammar corrector for Dan-ish, addressing in particular the issue of how a form of shallow parsing is combined with error detection and correction for the treatment of context-dependent spelling errors. The syntactic grammar for Danish used by the system has been developed with the aim of dealing with the most frequent error types...