Spell checking when working online.
Table of Contents
- Spell checking when working online
- Children who use technology are "better writers" Zoe Kleinman, BBC News. 3 December, 2009
- Working online - patterns of reading and writing
- Types of spell checkers
- Possible Strategies
- How are the students spell checking blogs, wikis etc?
- Is online word processing here?
- The message from students - Keep it simple!
- Performance of spell checkers varies
- Performance of spell checkers varies BUT so does usability
- Personalisation
- So how accurate are spell checkers?
- Non-word error test
- Single non-word error correction accuracy
- Single non-word error correction accuracy
- Some checkers can also correct real word errors
- Some checkers can also correct real word errors
- Testing contextual spell checkers
- Test 1: Controlled data
- Results of controlled data
- Test 2: Free writing example
- Word 2007 corrected version
- Google toolbar corrected version
- Ginger corrected version
- Conclusions
- Contact Details
- Useful Links
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Test 1: Controlled data
- Created 30 sentences, each containing a non-word error from the James & Draffan (2005) database.
- Then added a real-word error to each sentence.
- Real word error could be:
- A homophone e.g. need / knead
- Letter transposition , addition or removal to produce a real word e.g. bank / blank
- Similar looking or sounding word e.g. involved / evolved