Morphology-Aware Spell-Checking Dictionary for Esperanto

BLAHUŠ, Marek. Morphology-Aware Spell-Checking Dictionary for Esperanto. In Petr Sojka, Aleš Horák. Proceedings of Recent Advances in Slavonic Natural Language Processing, RASLAN 2009. Brno: Masaryk University, 2009, p. 3-8. ISBN 978-80-210-5048-8.

Basic information

• Original name: Morphology-Aware Spell-Checking Dictionary for Esperanto
• Authors: BLAHUŠ, Marek (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Brno, Proceedings of Recent Advances in Slavonic Natural Language Processing, RASLAN 2009, p. 3-8, 6 pp. 2009.
• Publisher: Masaryk University

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Proceedings paper
• Field of Study: 60200 6.2 Languages and Literature
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14330/09:00073103
• Organization unit: Faculty of Informatics
• ISBN: 978-80-210-5048-8
• Keywords in English: Esperanto; Morphology; Spell-checker; Spelling

Abstract

The article describes the process of constructing a spell checker for the Esperanto language and its implementation as a dictionary (i.e. an affix file and a word list) for the Hunspell spell-checking engine. In comparison to existing solutions, the chosen approach takes note of morphologically complex words, which are common in Esperanto due to its agglutinative nature, and applies a set of rules describing allowed morpheme compounds, along with semantic classification of all involved word roots. The result has been tested with a user community and is presently being incorporated into the OpenOffice.org office suite.

Links

• 2C06009, research and development project: Name: Prostředky tvorby komplexní báze znalostí pro komunikaci se sémantickým webem v přirozeném jazyce (Acronym: COT-SEWing)

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR