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Overview

Background
Language learners often wish to consult dictionaries to find the meaning of a newly encountered word. Imperfect recognition of the word (such as mishearings or misrecognition of letters) impedes this lookup. In addition, beginning language learners may not be able to transform a morphologically complex word into its canonical citation form as found in a dictionary.

Innovative Technology
Researchers at the University of Maryland’s Center for the Advanced Study of Language have developed a system allowing language learners to look up a word in an electronic dictionary regardless of whether or not they know correct spelling of a word or know its canonical citation form.

Applications

· Electronic dictionary
· Language learning software
· Spellcheck software
· Low-resource languages software

Advantages

· Increased ease of use and accuracy for users
· Language learning software developers can create dictionary lookup tool without the need for extensive corpora
· Allows development of dictionary lookup tool for low-resource language

Contact Info

UM Ventures
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7809 Regents Drive
College Park, MD 20742
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