Normalizing Early English Letters to Present-day English Spelling
2018-08-01COLING 2018Unverified0· sign in to hype
Mika H{\"a}m{\"a}l{\"a}inen, Tanja S{\"a}ily, Jack Rueter, J{\"o}rg Tiedemann, Eetu M{\"a}kel{\"a}
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This paper presents multiple methods for normalizing the most deviant and infrequent historical spellings in a corpus consisting of personal correspondence from the 15th to the 19th century. The methods include machine translation (neural and statistical), edit distance and rule-based FST. Different normalization methods are compared and evaluated. All of the methods have their own strengths in word normalization. This calls for finding ways of combining the results from these methods to leverage their individual strengths.