Analysis of Sindhi Spelling Error Patterns for Spelling Error Detection and Correction

Statistical analysis of spelling error trends in a language plays important role in automatic spelling error detection and correction. Comprehensive statistical analysis of spelling error trends for Sindhi is still subject of research. This research study identifies and analyses the spelling error trends in Sindhi. The statistical analysis of error trends is based on a real time corpus collected from different sources. A corpus based dictionary is developed and used for identification of errors from a test corpus. Both traditional (insertion, deletion, substitution and transposition) and language specific error trends are identified and analyzed. Errors are categorized into different types along with their statistical results. Reasons of various corpus/language specific error trends are also discussed. Keywords—Spelling error; spelling error patterns; Sindhi spelling errors; error pattern analysis;