MALAPROPISMS DETECTION AND CORRECTION USING A PARONYMS DICTIONARY, A SEARCH ENGINE AND WORDNET

Valentin Cojocaru, Costin-Gabriel Chiru, Stefan Trausan-Matu, Traian Rebedea

2010

Abstract

This paper presents a method for the automatic detection and correction of malapropism errors found in documents using the WordNet lexical database, a search engine (Google) and a paronyms dictionary. The malapropisms detection is based on the evaluation of the cohesion of the local context using the search engine, while the correction is done using the whole text cohesion evaluated in terms of lexical chains built using the linguistic ontology. The correction candidates, which are taken from the paronyms dictionary, are evaluated versus the local and the whole text cohesion in order to find the best candidate that is chosen for replacement. The testing methods of the application are presented, along with the obtained results.

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Cojocaru V., Chiru C., Trausan-Matu S. and Rebedea T. (2010). MALAPROPISMS DETECTION AND CORRECTION USING A PARONYMS DICTIONARY, A SEARCH ENGINE AND WORDNET . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8425-23-2, pages 364-373. DOI: 10.5220/0002931803640373

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft10,
author={Valentin Cojocaru and Costin-Gabriel Chiru and Stefan Trausan-Matu and Traian Rebedea},
title={MALAPROPISMS DETECTION AND CORRECTION USING A PARONYMS DICTIONARY, A SEARCH ENGINE AND WORDNET},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,},
year={2010},
pages={364-373},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002931803640373},
isbn={978-989-8425-23-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,
TI - MALAPROPISMS DETECTION AND CORRECTION USING A PARONYMS DICTIONARY, A SEARCH ENGINE AND WORDNET
SN - 978-989-8425-23-2
AU - Cojocaru V.
AU - Chiru C.
AU - Trausan-Matu S.
AU - Rebedea T.
PY - 2010
SP - 364
EP - 373
DO - 10.5220/0002931803640373