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Low-level typographical spellchecking: A proposal

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This article focuses on typographical spellchecking. Typographical spellchecking verifies the use of characters such as ? ! - ; : \sp $ @ and other special purpose characters in respect to spaces or null elements. The author claims that this kind of spellchecking has not been developed to any substantial degree, although it could be of considerable practical use as writer's aid. The article discusses the basic challenges of typographical spellchecking and shows that some of the difficulties are greater than might be expected at first sight. Rules for describing the behavior of typographical characters are proposed.

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  1. Kimmo Kettunen

    Present address: Language Centre of the University of Helsinki, Finland

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  1. Language Centre, University of Helsinki, Fin-00014 Helsingin Yliopistoff, P.O. Box 4, Finland

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His research interests include computational linguistics and electronic publishing.

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Kettunen, K. Low-level typographical spellchecking: A proposal. Comput Hum 30, 77–84 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00054027

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