Understanding eggcorns

  • Authors:
  • Sravana Reddy

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of Chicago

  • Venue:
  • CALC '09 Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

An eggcorn is a type of linguistic error where a word is substituted with one that is semantically plausible - that is, the substitution is a semantic reanalysis of what may be a rare, archaic, or otherwise opaque term. We build a system that, given the original word and its eggcorn form, finds a semantic path between the two. Based on these paths, we derive a typology that reflects the different classes of semantic reinterpretation underlying eggcorns.