Candidate Ranking for Maintenance of an Online Dictionary
Claire Broad, Helen Langone, David Guy Brizan · 2018
Traditionally, the process whereby a lexicographer identifies a lexical item to add to a dictionary -a database of lexical items -has been time-consuming and subjective.In the modern age of online dictionaries, all queries for lexical entries not currently in the database are indistinguishable from a larger list of misspellings, meaning that potential new or trending entries can get lost easily.In this project, we develop a system that uses machine learning techniques to assign these "misspells" a probability of being a novel or missing entry, incorporating signals from orthography, usage by trusted online sources, and dictionary query patterns.