Khmer Spellchecking: A Holistic Approach

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09812v1
• Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:10:52 GMT
• Title: Khmer Spellchecking: A Holistic Approach
• Authors: Marry Kong, Rina Buoy, Sovisal Chenda, Nguonly Taing,
• Abstract summary: This paper proposes a holistic approach to the Khmer spellchecking problem.<n>It integrates Khmer subword segmentation, Khmer NER, Khmer grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion, and a Khmer language model to tackle these challenges.<n> Experimental results show that the proposed approach achieves a state-of-the-art Khmer spellchecking accuracy of up to 94.4%.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Compared to English and other high-resource languages, spellchecking for Khmer remains an unresolved problem due to several challenges. First, there are misalignments between words in the lexicon and the word segmentation model. Second, a Khmer word can be written in different forms. Third, Khmer compound words are often loosely and easily formed, and these compound words are not always found in the lexicon. Fourth, some proper nouns may be flagged as misspellings due to the absence of a Khmer named-entity recognition (NER) model. Unfortunately, existing solutions do not adequately address these challenges. This paper proposes a holistic approach to the Khmer spellchecking problem by integrating Khmer subword segmentation, Khmer NER, Khmer grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion, and a Khmer language model to tackle these challenges, identify potential correction candidates, and rank the most suitable candidate. Experimental results show that the proposed approach achieves a state-of-the-art Khmer spellchecking accuracy of up to 94.4%, compared to existing solutions. The benchmark datasets for Khmer spellchecking and NER tasks in this study will be made publicly available.

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