Robert C. Moore
Robert C. Moore and Eric Brill published An Improved Error Model for Noisy Channel Spelling Correction at ACL 2000. Moore and Brill were affiliated with Microsoft Research and addressed automatically trained correction of single-word spelling errors. The paper models spelling errors with generic string-to-string edits. It reports improvements over earlier channel models in its experiments, with limits on the error types that the study addresses. Moore and William Lewis’s ACL 2010 paper selects language-model training sentences through a comparison of in-domain and general-model cross-entropy. It reports better models with less training text in the tested setting.
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Timeline
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2000
Learning spelling errors
Robert C. Moore and Eric Brill published An Improved Error Model for Noisy Channel Spelling Correction at ACL 2000. The paper, written at Microsoft Research, addresses automatically trained correction of single-word spelling errors.
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2000 method
String edits
The paper models spelling errors with generic string-to-string edits. It reports improvements over earlier channel models in its experiments.
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2010
Selecting training text
Moore and William Lewis’s ACL 2010 paper selects language-model training sentences through a comparison of in-domain and general-model cross-entropy. It reports better models with less training text in the tested setting.
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