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We introduce to you
our *TALO-speller/corrector for the European Languages.
This instrument solves the problems for each individual
language and because of its self-learning ability it solves
your problems personally.

Now we start with a couple of examples that needs correction
(look carefully at the alternatives, if necessary use a wider search,
if you still don't have any idea yet try a dictionary search):

We demonstrate examples from "The Random House Bad Speller's Dictionary"
Try: abbandon, abbolition, abcess, abillity, acknowledgement (am. only),
ackwire, cabage, cabanet, cabel, cafeine, dabate, dable, dabochery, dacolte,
dafodile

The sound relations of some words are difficult, e.g. the word dabochery
distorted because two vowel groups have been changed (debauchery). However,
for most faulty words correct alternatives are evoked. You should realize
that it is not difficult to generate a lot of alternatives, but being
close to a hit calls for a special linguistic strategy.

According to The "Bad Speller's Dictionary" there is no single pattern in
misspelling. Errors result from regional speech dialects, transposition of
letters, illogic, but also from miscoordination during typing texts.
These categories can largely be handled by the fuzzy distance mechanism of
the *TALO speller/corrector.

Abbreviations can also be checked such as: AmE, BrE, e.g., BBC, P.O. PM

Citations and parentheses can visually be checked according to the country's
habits, "a type work citation", \(``an Ebglish citation\('', \(<<a French
citation\(>>, or (parentheses). Non-closed brackets ] are marked with a red
flag.

Take the exemples of texts presented below:

There are, it seems to me, two interesting ideas about modularitye.
The first is the idea that some of ur cognitive faculties are modular.
The dsecond is the idea that some of our cognitive faculties are noy.

By a moidular cohnitive faculty I mean - for present puroses -
an "informationally encapsulated" cognitive faculty. By an informationally
encapsulated cognitive faculty I mean onbe that has access, in the
course of its computations, to less than all of the information at the
disposal of the organism whose cognitive faculty it is, the restriction
on inbformational access being imposed by relatively unlabile,
"architectural" features of mental organization.

A search for an antecedent over potentially unbounded distance is going
to involve storint a potentially unbounded left contect and allowing
the parser to rescan complex tree shapes and many irrelevant structures.
For example, when we are coindixing, we are interested only in noun-noun
relationships, but we will have to scan over many other categories as
well. This is what makes the process nonlineair.

One final alternatve to the structurally based parsing strategy appraoch
is to assume there is indeed a garden patj ot incorretc analysis contructed
in, but the reason for the garden path has nothoing to do with the number
of suntactic nodes required for the two anbalyses of the sentance.
Tather, one may assume that know (and the orther verbs that permit either
an NP or an S in their complementr) occur more frequnetly with a single NP
object.

And finally some diffecult errorsm which are highly doubtful and need a
wider search criterion:
Answert, aswert, lurcative, lurcativ, ommerce, comunictive,
communictive, sdmission, dmission, ilusrtative.

Depending on the amount of distortion of the document a decision criterion
for alternatives can be adjusted. This mechanism ensures an optimal sensitivity
for OCR derived documents. The citation mechanism using general country depended
rules detects inadequate recognized citations and parentheses.