Build Your First Autocorrection without Machine Learning
Last Updated on November 6, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Thao Vu
Originally published on Towards AI.
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Spell correction is everywhere. When I was writing this article, Grammarly is quietly helping me with the typos. When you input a query to an e-commerce website, it will first go to the correct phase to better match the desired items’ title.
Spell correction is no doubt essential for any written communication. It enhances our communication, maintains our professionalism and boosts our productivity. When considering building one, we may quickly come to the one-sizes-fit-all solution: deep learning. However, deep learning is only sometimes the optimal choice.
In this article, I would like to introduce “noisy channel”, a… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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