Seminar by Prof. B. B. Chaudhury
On a Spell-checker Design in Indian Language
Prof. B. B. Chaudhury
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit
Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata
Date: Fri, Feb 11, 2005
Time: 4:00 PM
Venue: CS-101
Abstract
For any high level Natural Language Processing (NLP) task there is a necessity that the input is error-free. Even for experts of a language, word level error may occur in the form of misspelling or real error misplacement. While, the second type of error cannot be solved so easily, the first type is reasonably well checked by the spell-checker. However, development a powerful spell-checker is not an easy task for inflectional languages. That is why no powerful commercial system is available for many Indian scripts. The current talk will explain different aspects of developing a good spell-checker and give examples from Bangla, which is a moderately rich inflectional language. This scheme can also be applied for other Indian languages.
About the Speaker
Prof. B B Chaudhuri is a professor in the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit of ISI Calcutta. He is widely recognized for his work on Document Image Processing and OCR on Indian Languages. A fellow of the IEEE, he is currently a recipient of the Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship. At present he is visiting the Computer Science and Engineering Department at IIT Kanpur for two months.