A concept in error correction of text editors: case study Thai-English set

  • Authors:
  • Wiboonsak Watthayu;Puchong Praekhao

  • Affiliations:
  • King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand;King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Interaction Sciences: Information Technology, Culture and Human
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper addresses the concept in error correction of text editor. Error correction is an important feature that has been integrated in some widely used editors. It reduces time to create and modify documents efficiently. However, most error correction features employed address only some types of errors, namely misspelling, grammatical error, misuse of capitalization and de-capitalization, errors related to punctuation, and so on. This paper studies the correction of errors relating to language switching by proposing a concept that can be implemented and integrated into text editors. The concept is to construct an engine that has some learning capability. It recognizes and memorizes the key strokes entered and studies the patterns of errors that people makes. As it behaves like a learning machine, the more experience (or more errors) it encounters, the more error correction capability and precision it has. Our proposed error correction engine is a state machine that accepts typed Thai and English characters as inputs. The experimental results demonstrate this model is effective in correcting. In addition, the typing is much easier and enjoyable for Thais. This technique is expected to be able to apply to other Asian languages in the future research.