{"id":2603,"date":"2011-06-06T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T09:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/msr_er\/2011\/06\/06\/cast-your-spell-on-spelling\/"},"modified":"2016-07-20T07:33:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T14:33:53","slug":"cast-your-spell-on-spelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/blog\/cast-your-spell-on-spelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Cast Your Spell on Spelling"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Speller<\/span>As some of you may recall, in December 2010, Microsoft Research and Bing jointly announced the Speller Challenge—the first ever Microsoft Research-Bing contest—which enticed participants to grapple with the issue of spelling correction of web search queries. Participants vied to build a speller that would propose the most plausible spelling alternatives for each search query. As a follow-up, we now invite the community to submit papers to the upcoming Spelling Alteration for Web Search Workshop, which will take place on July 19, 2011, at the Microsoft Bing Headquarters in Bellevue, Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Spelling Alteration for Web Search Workshop addresses the challenges of web-scale natural language processing, with a focus on search-query spelling correction. The workshop will include a prize ceremony for the winners of the Speller Challenge and will provide a forum for participants to exchange ideas and share experience, encouraging community discussions about future research directions for spelling alteration in web search. The workshop website<\/span> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> provides details of the workshop, including information on data services and resources, submission formats, and deadlines. <\/span><\/p>\n

Although the workshop is not limited to the Speller Challenge participants, we encourage the inclusion of the on-demand evaluation web application (for those who submitted theirs before registration closed) and the referenced testing dataset in prospective workshop submissions. These inclusions will facilitate the comparison of different systems and approaches against the same benchmark. We also ask that submitted systems be made publicly accessible throughout the workshop, to enable live demonstrations.<\/span><\/p>\n

The deadline for workshop submissions is June 25, so time is of the essence. If you are interested, submit your paper online<\/span> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

—<\/i>Evelyne Viegas<\/span><\/i> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Director of Semantic Computing, Microsoft Research Connections<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Learn More<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n