# Manually Annotated Spelling Error Corpus for Amharic

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.13521 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.13521/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 0 of its 17 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 25 Jun 2021.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper presents a manually annotated spelling error corpus for Amharic, lingua franca in Ethiopia. The corpus is designed to be used for the evaluation of spelling error detection and correction. The misspellings are tagged as non-word and real-word errors. In addition, the contextual information available in the corpus makes it useful in dealing with both types of spelling errors.