Prosjekt

The aim of this EU Telematics project has been to build proofreading tools for Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. In order to achieve its goals, SCARRIE has researched useful error detection and correction mechanisms for the Scandinavian languages. The work for Norwegian was coordinated at the University of Bergen and received managerial, administrative and technical support by the HIT-centre (now Aksis).

The Norwegian part of SCARRIE has been aimed at advanced spelling correction in Bokmål. It uses word form dictionaries in combination with special mechanisms for handling multi-word expressions and for recognizing newly seen compounds, proper names and other words not present in the dictionaries. The main result consists of an implemented and tested prototype with enhanced capabilities for advanced error correction. It was tested on a limited test set and the results were favourable in comparison to state of the art products.