In this study we employed a novel technique to examine the neural basis of written spelling by having subjects touch-type single words on an fMRI compatible QWERTY keyboard. Additionally, in the same group of participants we determined if task-related signal changes associated with typed spelling were also co-localized with or separate from those for reading. Of particular interest were the lef...

Spelling correction is the task of correcting words in texts. Most of the available spelling correction tools only work on isolated words and compute a list of spelling suggestions ranked by edit-distance, letter-n-gram similarity or comparable measures. Although the probability of the best ranked suggestion being correct in the current context is high, user intervention is usually necessary to...

The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between spelling knowledge and reading skills among a group of 16 intermediate-level Arab learners of English as a second language (ESL) and a corresponding comparison group of 21 intermediate-level ESL learners in an English for academic purposes (EAP) program. A spelling task was used to assess the English orthographic or spelling k...

Spelling recognition is an approach to enhance a speech recognizer’s ability 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. In order to implement Thai spelling recognition, Thai alphabets and their spelling methods are analyzed. Based on hidden Markov models, we propos...