Pronunciation Modeling for Improved Spelling Correction

  • Kristina Toutanova ,
  • Bob Moore

Published by Association for Computational Linguistics

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This paper presents a method for incorporating word pronunciation information in a noisy channel model for spelling correction. The proposed method builds an explicit error model for word pronunciations. By modeling pronunciation similarities between words we achieve a substantial performance improvement over the previous best performing models for spelling correction.