The Identification of Spelling Variants in English and German Historical Texts: Manual or Automatic?

In this article, we describe the respective approaches we have taken when addressing issues of spelling variation in German and English historical texts. More specifically, we describe an experiment to evaluate automatic techniques for the development of letter replacement heuristics against manuall...

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Published in:	Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 65 - 73
Main Authors:	Pilz, Thomas, Ernst-Gerlach, Andrea, Kempken, Sebastian, Rayson, Paul, Archer, Dawn
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Apr2008
Subjects:	English orthography & spelling German language Orthography & spelling Search engines Corpora Spelling errors
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost