Understanding eggcorns
Sravana Reddy · 2009
An eggcorn is a type of linguistic error where a word is substituted with one that is semantically plausible - that is, the substitution is a semantic reanalysis of what may be a rare, archaic, or otherwise opaque term. We build a system that, given the original word and its eggcorn form, finds a semantic path between the two. Based on these paths, we derive a typology that reflects the different classes of semantic reinterpretation underlying eggcorns.