Participants in electronic meetings are often fairly informal with their typing and make spelling and grammatical mistakes, perhaps realizing that such errors are not viewed as important in such free-flow, rapid-paced discussions. Although most researchers, group members, and meeting facilitators have noted these errors, no study has been conducted on the types of errors made or their correlati...

Noisy channel models, widely used in modern spellers, cope with typical misspellings, but do not work well with infrequent and difficult spelling errors. In this paper, we have improved the noisy channel approach by iterative stochastic search for the best correction. The proposed algorithm allowed us to avoid local minima problem and improve the F1 measure by 6.6% on distant spelling errors.

In this paper we show how different types of spelling errors influence the quality of machine translation. We also propose a method to evaluate the impact of spelling errors correction on translation quality without expensive manual work of providing reference translations.

The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that word reading accuracy, not oral language, is associated with spelling performance in school-age children. We compared fourth grade spelling accuracy in children with specific language impairment (SLI), dyslexia or both (SLI/dyslexia) to their typically developing grade-matched peers. Results of the study revealed that children with SLI p...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether students with and without hearing loss (HL) differed in their spelling abilities and, specifically, in the underlying linguistic awareness skills that support spelling ability. Furthermore, we examined whether there were differences between the two groups in the relationship between reading and spelling. We assessed the spelling, word-level rea...