Language models for contextual error detection and correction

EACL 2009 - Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on Computational Linguistic Aspects of Grammatical Inference, CLAGI 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 41-48

  Stehouwer, Herman ^a   van Zaanen, Menno ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONTEXT-SENSITIVE; ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION; GENERIC APPROACH; GENERIC CLASSIFIER; LANGUAGE MODEL; LEARNING CLASSIFIERS; MACHINE-LEARNING; PERFORMANCE; SINGLE MODELS; SPELLING ERRORS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 80052873591     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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