CLJun 25, 2021
Manually Annotated Spelling Error Corpus for AmharicAndargachew Mekonnen Gezmu, Tirufat Tesifaye Lema, Binyam Ephrem Seyoum et al.
This paper presents a manually annotated spelling error corpus for Amharic, lingua franca in Ethiopia. The corpus is designed to be used for the evaluation of spelling error detection and correction. The misspellings are tagged as non-word and real-word errors. In addition, the contextual information available in the corpus makes it useful in dealing with both types of spelling errors.