Spelling check identifies incorrect writing words in documents. For the reason of input methods, Chinese spelling check is much different from English and it is still a challenging work. For the past decade years, most of the methods in detecting errors in documents are lexicon-based or probability-based, and much progress are made. In this paper, we propose a new method in Chinese spelling che...

We consider the problem of choosing the ridge parameter. Two penalized maximum likelihood (PML) criteria based on a distribution-free and a datadependent penalty function are proposed. These PML criteria can be considered as “continuous” versions of AIC. A systematic simulation is conducted to compare the suggested criteria to several existing methods. The simulation results strongly support th...