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Introduction to the Special Issue on Chinese Spell Checking

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This special issue contains four articles based on and expanded from systems presented at the SIGHAN-7 Chinese Spelling Check Bakeoff. We provide an overview of the approaches and designs for Chinese spelling checkers presented in these articles. We conclude this introductory article with a summary of possible future directions.

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        cover image ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing
        ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing  Volume 14, Issue 4
        Special Issue on Chinese Spell Checking
        October 2015
        92 pages
        ISSN:2375-4699
        EISSN:2375-4702
        DOI:10.1145/2845556
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        • Published: 11 November 2015
        • Accepted: 1 July 2015
        • Received: 1 June 2015
        Published in tallip Volume 14, Issue 4

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