normalization

Turkish Text Normalization

Turkish Spell Checker

Spell checker provides methods for checking if a word is correctly written and can give suggestions for a word. TurkishSpellChecker class is used for this.

Instantiation:

TurkishMorphology morphology = TurkishMorphology.createWithDefaults();
TurkishSpellChecker spellChecker = new TurkishSpellChecker(morphology);

After this, several methods are available. check(String input) method is used for detecting if a word is spelled correctly.

String[] words = {"okuyabileceğimden","okuyablirim", "Ankara", "Ankar'ada", "3'de", "3'te"};
for (String word : words) {
    System.out.println(word + " = " + spellChecker.check(word));
} 

Output will be

okuyabileceğimden = true
okuyablirim = false
Ankara = true
Ankar'ada = false
3'de = false
3'te = true

Spelling Suggestion

Currently Zemberek provides a simple suggestion mechanism.

For getting suggestions for incorrect words suggestForWord method can be used:

String[] words = {"okuyablirim", "tartısıyor", "Ankar'ada", "knlıca"};
for (String word : words) {
    System.out.println(word + " = " + spellChecker.suggestForWord(word));
} 

Will give these suggestions:

okuyablirim = [okuyabilirim]
tartısıyor = [tartışıyor, tartılıyor, tartınıyor]
Ankar'ada = [Ankara'da, Ankara'ya, Ankara'dan, Ankaray'da, Ankara'ma, Antara'da, Ankara'ca, Cankara'da, Anakarada, Ankara'na, Angara'da, Ankara'mda, Ankara'nda, Ankaray'a]
knlıca = [Kanlıca, kanlıca, In'lıca, kılıca, anlıca, Kanlı'ca, kınlıca, kalıca]

If user provides a higher order language model (bi-gram models are sufficient) and context words, ranking of the suggestions may improve. Method below is used for this.

public List<String> suggestForWord(
            String word,
            String leftContext,
            String rightContext,
            NgramLanguageModel lm)

Limitations

• It only may correct for 1 insertion, 1 deletion, 1 substitution and 1 transposition errors.
• It ranks the results with an internal unigram language model.
• There is no deasciifier.
• It does not correct numbers, dates and times.
• There may be junk results.
• For shorter words, there will be a lot of suggestions (sometimes >50 ).
• Suggestion function is not so fast (Around 500-1000 words/second).