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Pronunciation Modeling in Spelling Correction for Writers of English as a Foreign Language

Boyd, Adriane
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1211982544

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2008, Master of Science, Ohio State University, Computer and Information Science.
In this thesis I propose a method for modeling pronunciation variation in the context of spell checking for non-native writers of English. Spell checkers, which are nearly ubiquitous in text-processing software, have been developed with native speakers as the target audience and fail to address many of the types of spelling errors peculiar to non-native speakers, especially those errors influenced by their native language's writing system and by differences in the phonology of the native and non-native languages. The model of pronunciation variation is used to extend a pronouncing dictionary for use in the spelling correction algorithm developed by Toutanova and Moore (2002), which includes statistical models of spelling errors related to both orthography and pronunciation. The pronunciation variation modeling is shown to improve performance for misspellings produced by Japanese writers of English as a foreign language.
Eric Fosler-Lussier (Advisor)
Christopher Brew (Committee Member)
81 p.
Computer Science
spelling correction; pronunciation variation

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  • Boyd, A. (2008). Pronunciation Modeling in Spelling Correction for Writers of English as a Foreign Language [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1211982544

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Boyd, Adriane. Pronunciation Modeling in Spelling Correction for Writers of English as a Foreign Language. 2008. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1211982544.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Boyd, Adriane. "Pronunciation Modeling in Spelling Correction for Writers of English as a Foreign Language." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1211982544

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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