Arabic-L:LING:Study on Why MS-Spell Checker for Arabic is Ineffective

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Date: 14 May 2013
From:Alexis Neme <alexis.neme at gmail.com>
Subject:Study on Why MS-Spell Checker for Arabic is Ineffective

Dear Member,


Study: Why Arabic MS-Office spell checker is ineffective?
 (Study in 4 pages written in Arabic -
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxNlvHT_YuNWdjFObWJlVmJJOXc/edit?usp=sharing
)

This study shows why MS-spell checker fails to attract Arabic users. After
proofreading a document (10 pages - 3300 words in Arabic), the Arabic
 spell checker pinpoints 78 false positive errors  Thus, this reveals flaws
in  the lexical resource:
1) an unsystematic lexical coverage of the feminine and the broken plural
inflexion of nouns;
2) an arbitrary coverage of nouns and verbs with  prefixed or  suffixed
particles.


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Alexis Neme
Computational Linguist
FR-AR-PT-EN

alexis.neme at gmail.com

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