Kais Allkivi-Metsoja


2023

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Spelling Correction for Estonian Learner Language
Kais Allkivi-Metsoja | Jaagup Kippar
Proceedings of the 24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)

Second and foreign language (L2) learners often make specific spelling errors compared to native speakers. Language-independent spell-checking algorithms that rely on n-gram models can offer a simple solution for improving learner error detection and correction due to context-sensitivity. As the open-source speller previously available for Estonian is rule-based, our aim was to evaluate the performance of bi- and trigram-based statistical spelling correctors on an error-tagged set of A2–C1-level texts written by L2 learners of Estonian. The newly trained spell-checking models were compared to existing correction tools (open-source and commercial). Then, the best-performing Jamspell corrector was trained on various datasets to analyse their effect on the correction results.

2022

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LITHME: Language in the Human-Machine Era
Maarit Koponen | Kais Allkivi-Metsoja | Antonio Pareja-Lora | Dave Sayers | Márta Seresi
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation

The LITHME COST Action brings together researchers from various fields of study focusing on language and technology. We present the overall goals of LITHME and the network’s working groups focusing on diverse questions related to language and technology. As an example of the work of the LITHME network, we discuss the working group on language work and language professionals.