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Main Authors: Domingo, Miguel, Casacuberta, Francisco
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23288
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author Domingo, Miguel
Casacuberta, Francisco
author_facet Domingo, Miguel
Casacuberta, Francisco
contents The absence of standardized spelling conventions and the organic evolution of human language present an inherent linguistic challenge within historical documents, a longstanding concern for scholars in the humanities. Addressing this issue, spelling normalization endeavors to align a document's orthography with contemporary standards. In this study, we propose two new approaches based on large language models: one of which has been trained without a supervised training, and a second one which has been trained for machine translation. Our evaluation spans multiple datasets encompassing diverse languages and historical periods, leading us to the conclusion that while both of them yielded encouraging results, statistical machine translation still seems to be the most suitable technology for this task.
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spellingShingle Two Spelling Normalization Approaches Based on Large Language Models
Domingo, Miguel
Casacuberta, Francisco
Computation and Language
The absence of standardized spelling conventions and the organic evolution of human language present an inherent linguistic challenge within historical documents, a longstanding concern for scholars in the humanities. Addressing this issue, spelling normalization endeavors to align a document's orthography with contemporary standards. In this study, we propose two new approaches based on large language models: one of which has been trained without a supervised training, and a second one which has been trained for machine translation. Our evaluation spans multiple datasets encompassing diverse languages and historical periods, leading us to the conclusion that while both of them yielded encouraging results, statistical machine translation still seems to be the most suitable technology for this task.
title Two Spelling Normalization Approaches Based on Large Language Models
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23288