Building ancient Spanish dictionaries for spell-checking of DL texts

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002)

Abstract

Being aware of the usefulness of spell-checkers on the correction of modern works, and lacking this facility for ancient texts, we decided to build dictionaries for ancient Spanish. This decision led to new problems and new questions. We have built a time-aware system of dictionaries that takes into account the temporal dynamics of language, to help solve the problem of ancient Spanish spell-checking. In this paper we present the problems we have found, the decisions we have made and the conclusions and results we arrived at.