Spelling correction has been studied for many decades, which can be classified into two categories: (1) regular text spelling correction, (2) query spelling correction. Although the two tasks share many common techniques, they have different concerns. This paper presents our work on the CLP-2014 bake-off. The task focuses on spelling checking on foreigner Chinese essays. Compared to online sear...

Spelling recognition is an approach to enhance a speech recognizer to cope with incorrectly recognized words and out-of-vocabulary words. This paper presents a general framework for Thai speech recognition, enhanced with spelling recognition. To implement Thai spelling recognition, Thai alphabets and their spelling methods are analyzed. Based on hidden Markov models, we propose a method to cons...

Children who have difficulty with literacy development often experience pervasive and enduring trouble with spelling, even after receiving remedial instruction. Our study tests a new approach to improving the spelling of these children. We designed an instructional program emphasizing the morphological structure of words, and directly contrast its benefits to instruction that focuses on word me...

OBJECTIVE To develop an intervention procedure for spelling difficulties and to verify the effectiveness of the intervention program in students with lower spelling performance. METHOD We developed an intervention program for spelling difficulties, according to the semiology of the errors. The program consisted of three modules totaling 16 sessions. The study included 40 students of the third...

We examined testing's ability to enhance adult spelling acquisition, relative to copying and reading. Across 3 experiments in which testing with feedback was compared with copying, the spelling improvement after testing matched that following the same amount of time spent copying. A potent testing advantage, however, was observed for spelling words free-recalled. In the fourth experiment, a lar...

Statistical analysis of spelling error trends in a language plays important role in automatic spelling error detection and correction. Comprehensive statistical analysis of spelling error trends for Sindhi is still subject of research. This research study identifies and analyses the spelling error trends in Sindhi. The statistical analysis of error trends is based on a real time corpus collecte...

Orthographic spelling is a major difficulty in German-speaking children with dyslexia. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an orthographic spelling training in spelling-disabled students (grade 5 and 6). In study 1, ten children (treatment group) received 15 individually administered weekly intervention sessions (60 min each). A control group (n = 4) did not receiv...

Objectives: In this research study, the effect of training phonological awareness skills on the improvement of auditory memory in students with spelling problems in third grade at primary schools in Sari City, Iran, was investigated.  Methods: The research method used in the study was quasi-experimental with pre-tests, post-tests, and a control group. The statistical population consisted ...

We compared the effectiveness of two spelling interventions: one focused on morphological structure and one emphasizing word meanings,, on spelling acquisition in French speaking children in 3 and 5 grades. The morphology intervention led to significantly greater improvement in spelling than the vocabulary intervention, especially for children in grade 5. To compare the long-term effects of the...