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How to Write a Spelling Corrector
- tgv 7y ago> We need a lot of data to do this well. Yup. And once you've got a sufficiently large tagged error corpus, spelling correction will be as simple as a lookup: almost all misspellings (in terms of frequency) will be present in the corpus, and you can drop the (rather simplistic) algorithmic part.
- techbio 7y agoBy way of word2vec, or ?
- colejohnson66 7y agoBut what about “they’re”, “there”, and “their”? And other homonyms people frequently misspell?
- brudgers 7y agoSome previous discussions, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16918757 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16918757 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12453535 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12453535 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8749518 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8749518 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7487341 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7487341