---
language: fr
tags:
- grammar
- spelling correction
license: mit 
datasets:
- synthetic
---

# Spelling correction dataset (French)  

This dataset is generated by transforming/corrupting sentences of a French news corpus
provided by the [University of Leipzig](https://wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de/en/download/French).

The following transformations are applied to words in the sentences:
- concatenation of pairs of words
- swapping of neighboring letters in words
- insertion
- deletion
- replacement (by neighboring characters in AZERTY keyboard)


## Generation 

`pip install happytransformer `

```bash
./scripts/get_data.py -t news -y 2023 -s 10K
./scripts/generate_dataset.py -i data/fra_news_2023_10k/fra_news_2023_10k-sentences.txt
```