posted on 2004-04-23, 00:00authored byChristian Monson, Lorraine LevinLorraine Levin, Rodolfo M Vega, Ralf D Brown, Ariadna Font-Llitjos, Alon LavieAlon Lavie, Jaime G. Carbonell, Eliseo Cañulef, Rosendo Huisca
This paper describes part of a three year collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute, the
Programa de Educación Intercultural Bilingüe of the Chilean Ministry of Education, and Universidad de La Frontera (Temuco, Chile).
We are currently constructing a spelling checker for Mapudungun, a polysynthetic language spoken by the Mapuche people in Chile
and Argentina. The spelling checker will be built in MySpell, the spell checking system used by the open source office suite
OpenOffice. This paper also describes the spoken language corpus that is used as a source of data for developing the spelling checker