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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Comments below,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Rich Cooper<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>EnglishLogicKernel.com<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>9 4 9 \ 5 2 5 - 5 7 1 2<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: corpora-bounces@uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no] On Behalf Of John
F. Sowa<br>
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2011 7:06 PM<br>
To: corpora@uib.no<br>
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Spellchecker evaluation corpus</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 4/9/2011 7:03 AM, Eric Atwell wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>> Jennifer Pedler's PhD developed a spelling-error
detection tool,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>> evaluated on a corpus of real spelling errors;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Her slides had an example from a <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region> corpus that
would be highly<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>unlikely in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>: {tort, taught}.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Japanese English is much better than it used to be,
but it still<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>has L/R confusions.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Instead of a single corpus, it would be useful to have
a set of<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>corpora for authors with different backgrounds.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Voila! The USPTO patent corpus has lots
of examples, from lots of authors, in lots of technical fields, where jargon
could be detected. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>-Rich<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>John Sowa<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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