This study looks at how well the leading monolingual English learners' dictionaries in their onli... more This study looks at how well the leading monolingual English learners' dictionaries in their online versions cope with misspelled words as search terms.
One of the methods that has been proposed for dealing with real-word errors (errors that occur wh... more One of the methods that has been proposed for dealing with real-word errors (errors that occur when a correctly spelled word is substituted for the one intended) is the "confusion-set" approach - a confusion set being a small group of words that are likely to be confused with one another. Using a list of confusion sets drawn up in advance,
This study looks at how well the leading monolingual English learners' dictionaries in their... more This study looks at how well the leading monolingual English learners' dictionaries in their online versions cope with misspelled words as search terms. Six such dictionaries are tested on a corpus of misspellings produced by Polish, Japanese, and Finnish learners of English. The performance of the dictionaries varies widely, but is in general poor. For a large proportion of cases, dictionaries fail to supply the intended word, and when they do, they do not place it at the top of the list of suggested alternatives. We attempt to identify ...
This study looks at how well the leading monolingual English learners' dictionaries in their onli... more This study looks at how well the leading monolingual English learners' dictionaries in their online versions cope with misspelled words as search terms.
One of the methods that has been proposed for dealing with real-word errors (errors that occur wh... more One of the methods that has been proposed for dealing with real-word errors (errors that occur when a correctly spelled word is substituted for the one intended) is the "confusion-set" approach - a confusion set being a small group of words that are likely to be confused with one another. Using a list of confusion sets drawn up in advance,
This study looks at how well the leading monolingual English learners' dictionaries in their... more This study looks at how well the leading monolingual English learners' dictionaries in their online versions cope with misspelled words as search terms. Six such dictionaries are tested on a corpus of misspellings produced by Polish, Japanese, and Finnish learners of English. The performance of the dictionaries varies widely, but is in general poor. For a large proportion of cases, dictionaries fail to supply the intended word, and when they do, they do not place it at the top of the list of suggested alternatives. We attempt to identify ...
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