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Design of A Spell Corrector For Hausa Language
Lawaly Salifou, Harouna  Naroua
Pages - 14 - 26     |    Revised - 10-05-2014     |    Published - 01-06-2014
Volume - 5   Issue - 2    |    Publication Date - May / June 2014  Table of Contents
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KEYWORDS
Natural Language Processing, Spell Checker, Spell Corrector, Computerization of Hausa, African Languages.
ABSTRACT
In this article, a spell corrector has been designed for the Hausa language which is the second most spoken language in Africa and do not yet have processing tools. This study is a contribution to the automatic processing of the Hausa language. We used existing techniques for other languages and adapted them to the special case of the Hausa language. The corrector designed operates essentially on Mijinguini’s dictionary and characteristics of the Hausa alphabet. After a brief review on spell checking and spell correcting techniques and the state of art in the Hausa language processing, we opted for the data structures trie and hash table to represent the dictionary. The edit distance and the specificities of the Hausa alphabet have been used to detect and correct spelling errors. The implementation of the spell corrector has been made on a special editor developed for that purpose (LyTexEditor) but also as an extension (add-on) for OpenOffice.org. A comparison was made on the performance of the two data structures used.
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Mr. Lawaly Salifou
Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey - Niger
Associate Professor Harouna  Naroua
Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey - Niger
hnaroua@yahoo.com


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