Tamil Spell Checker App for iPhone

S  Thendral; R  Subhashini  and V  Madhan Karky

doi:10.17485/ijst/2019/v12i29/147082

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Indian Journal of Science and Technology

DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2019/v12i29/147082

Year: 2019, Volume: 12, Issue: 29, Pages: 1-4

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Tamil Spell Checker App for iPhone

S. Thendral^1*, R. Subhashini¹ and V. Madhan Karky²

¹School of Computing, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai - 600119, Tamil Nadu, India; [email protected], [email protected]
²Karky Research Foundation, Chennai - 600024, Tamil Nadu, India; [email protected]

*Author for correspondence
S. Thendral
School of Computing, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai - 600119, Tamil Nadu, India; [email protected]

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

Objective: To obtain an application for iPhone mobile to identify and correct the spelling mistakes in the given Tamil text and post it in the social media. Methods: The application splits each Tamil word from the given Tamil text and further analysed by using Tamil dictionary. Each word is split morphologically and finally checked for its sandhi errors based on Tamil grammar rules. Findings: Currently, Tamil spell check application is not available for iPhone in app store. So, this will be first application for identifying misspellings in Tamil text. Applications/Improvements: This Tamil spell checker application can be improved by adding grammar rules for other languages too.

Keywords: iPhone, Tamil Spell Checker, NLP