Lexicography by Roger Mitton
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.
Papers by Roger Mitton
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,
International Journal of Lexicography, 2013
A previous study found that the leading monolingual English learners' dictionaries in their onlin... more A previous study found that the leading monolingual English learners' dictionaries in their online versions coped poorly with misspelled words as search terms. This paper reports on a repeat of this study in 2012, which obtained similar results, though some changes from 2011 are noted. As in 2011, the performance of the dictionaries was compared with that of an experimental context-free spellchecker, and again the online dictionaries were found wanting. The new data were also subjected to a cluster analysis which showed how the dictionaries could be grouped based solely on their performance.
You loose your no-claims bonus," instead of, "You lose your no-claims bonus," is an example of a ... more You loose your no-claims bonus," instead of, "You lose your no-claims bonus," is an example of a real-word spelling error. One way to enable a spellchecker to detect such errors is to prime it with information about likely features of the context for loose (as a verb) as compared with lose. To this end, we extracted all the examples of loose used as a verb from the BNC (British National Corpus, XML edition, written part ).
Proceedings of eLex, 2011
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 ...
Uploads
Lexicography by Roger Mitton
Papers by Roger Mitton