Today there is a large amount of unstructured data produced by information systems from different domains. These sources may be analyzed for different purposes. Existing approaches use string similarity methods to search for valid words within a text, with a supporting dictionary. However, they have two main drawbacks. First, they are not rich enough to encode phonetic information to assist the...

Attention shifting refers to one core component of executive functions, a set of higher-order cognitive processes that predict different aspects of academic achievement. To date, few studies have investigated the role of attention shifting in orthographic competencies during middle childhood and early adolescence. In the present study, 69 first-grade, 121 third-grade, and 85 eighth-grade studen...

OBJECTIVES This research investigated three potential asymmetries in the production and perception of homophone spelling errors: aging, homophone dominance, and priming. A homophone spelling error occurs when a contextually appropriate word (beet) is replaced with its homophone (e.g., beat glaze). Two experiments investigated young and older adults' written production and detection of these err...

The present study has explored how pairs of students deployed digital tools (spelling software) as resources in spontaneously occurring corrections of spelling errors. Drawing on the sociocultural theory of learning and ethnomethodological (Conversation Analytic) insights into social interaction, it has identified a range of consistent practices and uses of the spelling tools that were emergent...

The present study has explored how pairs of students deployed digital tools (spelling software) as resources in spontaneously occurring corrections of spelling errors. Drawing on the sociocultural theory of learning and ethnomethodological (Conversation Analytic) insights into social interaction, it has identified a range of consistent practices and uses of the spelling tools that were emergent...

This paper presents the 'techniques of correcting for spelling errors, orthographical errors, and grammatical errors in computer-based text. And this paper addresses an extension that goes beyond normal checking of isolated single word by taking multiwords as well as a sentence. The candidate words for spelling errors are created by applying function of rules and correction rule table that cont...

This paper describes our experiments to overcome the problem of inputting unknown words in a voice-only application by spelling. As the paper demonstrates, this is achieved by postprocessing the speech recognition result to attempt to recover from possible recognition errors that occurred during the spelling phase. Since the post-processing does not involve any additional user input, it not onl...