Qpen Source Spell Checker For Bukusu Dialect
Abstract
This project describes the development of an open source spellchecker for Bukusu
language using Hunspell language tools. It examines Bukusu morphology,
highlighting the inflection of various parts of speech in the Bukusu language including
verbs, nouns and pronouns.
The project focuses on the definition two major Hunspell files in the realization of the
spell checker, i.e. the affix file (.aff) and the dictionary file (.dic). The dictionary file
contains the Bukusu lexicon, whereas the affix file contains stemming rules that facilitate
word suggestion using character prevalence and replacement procedures.
The functional system is aimed at being adopted in major open-source products such as
Open Office, Google Chrome, Firefox and Thunderbird. The open-source platform Used
in the development of the spell checker will also allow for future improvements on the
system.
The developed spell checker realizes an acceptable performance with a precision of
79.3%, a recall of 77% and an accuracy of 68.9%
Citation
Master of Science in Information SystemsSponsorhip
University of NairobiPublisher
University of Nairobi School of Computing and Informatics