S-Capade: Spelling Correction Aimed at Particularly Deviant Errors

O’Neill, Emma; Young, Robert; Thiaville, Elsa; MacCarthy, Muireann; Carson-Berndsen, Julie; Ventresque, Anthony

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-59430-5_7

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“…If a misspelling has the same phoneme sequence as its real-word target then the edit distance will be 0 and the target will likely be the top ranked candidate correction. However, if the misspelling's predicted phoneme sequence does not match any real-word candidates, the suggested correction will be the candidate deemed most similar as a result of its low edit distance score (O'Neill et al, 2020).…”

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“…Candidate suggestions for spelling correction are generated by identifying words with matching or similar phonetic keys. Similarly, S-capade (O'Neill et al, 2020), our own English spellchecker for children, produces candidate corrections that have the same or similar phoneme sequences to that predicted of the misspelled word. It generates a phoneme representation of the misspelling and calculates the weighted edit distance between the misspelling and a candidate correction based on the likelihood of phonemes being inserted, deleted, or substituted for others.…”

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The Influence of Regional Pronunciation Variation on Children’s Spelling and the Potential Benefits of Accent Adapted Spellcheckers

O’Neill¹,

Kenny²,

Ventresque³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning

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A child who is unfamiliar with the correct spelling of a word often employs a "sound it out" approach: breaking the word down into its constituent sounds and then choosing letters to represent the identified sounds. This often results in a misspelling that is orthographically very different to the intended target. Recently, efforts have been made to develop phonetic based spellcheckers to tackle the more deviant nature of children's misspellings. However, little work has been done to investigate the potential of spelling correction tools that incorporate regional pronunciation variation. If a child must first identify the sounds that make up a word, it stands to reason their pronunciation would influence this process. We investigate this hypothesis along with the feasibility and potential benefits of adapting spelling correction tools to more specific language variantsparticularly Irish Accented English. We use misspelling data from schoolchildren across Ireland to adapt an existing English phoneticbased spellchecker and demonstrate improvements in performance. These results not only prompt consideration of language varieties in the development of spellcheckers but also contribute to existing literature on the role of regional accent in the acquisition of writing proficiency.

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Section: S-capade's Phoneme Distance Matrixmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%