HANSpeller: A Unified Framework for Chinese Spelling Correction

Increased interest in China from foreigners has led to a corresponding interest in the study of Chinese. However, the learning of Chinese by non-native speakers will encounter many difficulties, Chinese spelling check techniques for Chinese as a Foreign Language(CFL) learners is highly desirable. This paper presents our work on the SIGHAN-2015 Chinese Spelling Check task. The task focuses on spelling checking on Chinese essays written by CFL learners. We propose a unified framework called HANSpeller++ based on our previous HANSpeller for Chinese spelling correction. The framework consists of candidate generating,candidates re-ranking and final global decision making. Experiments show good performance on the test data of the task.