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An Ensemble Method for Spelling Correction in Consumer Health Questions
2015
AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings
Orthographic and grammatical errors are a common feature of informal texts written by lay people. Health-related questions asked by consumers are a case in point. Automatic interpretation of consumer health questions is hampered by such errors. In this paper, we propose a method that combines techniques based on edit distance and frequency counts with a contextual similarity-based method for detecting and correcting orthographic errors, including misspellings, word breaks, and punctuation
pmid:26958208
pmcid:PMC4765565
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