Advantages of online spellchecking: a Croatian example

作者：Dembitz Sandor^*; Randic Mirko; Gledec Gordan

来源：Software: Practice and Experience , 2011, 41(11): 1203-1231.

DOI：10.1002/spe.1037

• language corpus
• spellchecker traffic
• supervised learning
• mathematical modeling of spellchecking parameters
• Heaps' law
• workload anticipation

Online spellchecking is commonly regarded as an auxiliary way of performing spellchecking. However, it offers a unique opportunity to constantly improve spellchecker linguistic functionality through interaction with the community of spellchecker users. Such a possibility is crucial for spellchecking in non-central and under-resourced languages, in order to overcome gaps in NLP tools between them and central languages. The paper describes Hascheck, a Croatian online spellchecker able to learn words from texts it receives. It started as the first Croatian spellchecker, hence as a basic NLP tool for an under-resourced language, but due to its learning ability it demonstrates linguistic functionality comparable to that of conventional central-language spellcheckers. Based on these experiences we also discuss the future of online spellchecking in the context of global NLP tasks.

• 出版日期2011-10