The correct choice of words has proven challenging for learners of a second language and errors of this kind form a separate category in error typology. This paper focuses on one known example of two verbs that are often confused by non-native speakers of Germanic languages, to make and to do. We conduct experiments using syntactic information and immediate context for Dutch and English. Our re...

This paper discusses the corpus annotation effort in the FLAG project and its application in the development of controlled language and grammar checking applications. A USENET corpus was collected and annotated using the error typology developed in the project. The DiET tool was used to support the automatic annotation effort, and to evaluate and validate the data. Finally, we report on some in...

An eggcorn is a type of linguistic error where a word is substituted with one that is semantically plausible – that is, the substitution is a semantic reanalysis of what may be a rare, archaic, or otherwise opaque term. We build a system that, given the original word and its eggcorn form, finds a semantic path between the two. Based on these paths, we derive a typology that reflects the differe...

We induce semantic association networks from translation relations in parallel corpora. The resulting semantic spaces are encoded in a single reference language, which ensures cross-language comparability. As our main contribution, we cluster the obtained (crosslingually comparable) lexical semantic spaces. We find that, in our sample of languages, lexical semantic spaces largely coincide with ...

In this paper, we propose an error correction method using text corpora. In this method, recognition errors are corrected using phonetically similar examples in the text corpora. The reliability of the correction hypotheses are judged according to their semantic consistency and their phonetic similarity to the original input. We previously proposed an error correction method that uses a treeban...

Handoffs-transfer of patient care from one clinician or service to another-are well known patient safety dangers. Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) as an intervening and powerful force in handoffs has received comparatively little attention. The role of HIT in concert with paper documentation has received even less attention. We analyze handoffs in relation to electronic records and hybri...

This paper reports work carried out to develop a speller for Spanish at Microsoft Corporation, discusses the technique for isolatedword error correction used by the speller, provides general descriptions of the error data collection and error typology, and surveys a variety of linguistic considerations relevant when dealing with a world language spread over several countries and exposed to diff...

Error patterns in children's phonological development are often described as simplifying processes that can interact with one another with different consequences. Some interactions limit the applicability of an error pattern, and others extend it to more words. Theories predict that error patterns interact to their full potential. While specific interactions have been documented for certain pai...