Automatic Spelling Correction in Galician

We describe a proposal on spelling correction intended to be applied on Galician, a Romance language. Our aim is to put into evidence the flexibility of a novelty technique that provides a quality equivalent to global strategies, but with a significantly minor computational cost. To do it, we take advantage of the grammatical background present in the recognizer, which allows us to dynamically gather information to the right and to the left of the point at which the recognition halts in a word, as long as this information could be considered as relevant for the repair process. The experimental tests prove the validity of our approach in relation to previous ones, focusing on both performance and costs.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: TAL
• Authors: Manuel Vilares Ferro, Juan Otero, Francisco-Mario Barcala, Eva Domínguez
• Keywords: Grammatical Background Present, Minor Computational Cost, Natural Language Processing, Romance Language, TAL 2004