October 19, 2016
2:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Hall C

Track: General
Type: Posters
Level: All

Existing spellchecking methods require a standard list of spellings and a large corpus in order to detect and correct misspellings. However, since Nigerian pidgin does not have these requirements, a technique that detects errors based on the various renditions of words in a document have been developed and it provides a means of automating the process of spelling standardization via crowdsoucing.

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