Pairing Orthographically Variant Literary Words to Standard Equivalents Using Neural Edit Distance Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15068v1
• Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 18:49:34 GMT
• Title: Pairing Orthographically Variant Literary Words to Standard Equivalents Using Neural Edit Distance Models
• Authors: Craig Messner and Tom Lippincott
• Abstract summary: We present a novel corpus consisting of orthographically variant words found in works of 19th century U.S. literature annotated with their corresponding "standard" word pair. We train a set of neural edit distance models to pair these variants with their standard forms, and compare the performance of these models to the performance of a set of neural edit distance models trained on a corpus of orthographic errors made by L2 English learners.
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• Abstract: We present a novel corpus consisting of orthographically variant words found in works of 19th century U.S. literature annotated with their corresponding "standard" word pair. We train a set of neural edit distance models to pair these variants with their standard forms, and compare the performance of these models to the performance of a set of neural edit distance models trained on a corpus of orthographic errors made by L2 English learners. Finally, we analyze the relative performance of these models in the light of different negative training sample generation strategies, and offer concluding remarks on the unique challenge literary orthographic variation poses to string pairing methodologies.

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