Chinese character correction involves two major steps: 1) Providing candidate corrections for all or partially identified characters in a sentence, and 2) Scoring all altered sentences and identifying which is the best corrected sentence. In this paper a web-based measure is used to score candidate sentences, in which there exists one continuous error character in a sentence in almost all sentences in the Bakeoff corpora. The approach of using a web-based measure can be applied directly to sentences with multiple error characters, either consecutive or not, and is not optimized for one-character error correction of Chinese sentences. The results show that the approach achieved a fair precision score whereas the recall is low compared to results reported in this Bakeoff.
Yu et al. REF corrected sentences by providing candidate corrections for all or partially identified characters in a sentence, and scoring all altered sentences and identifying which was the best corrected sentence.
Candidate Scoring Using Web-Based Measure for Chinese Spelling Error Correction
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