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CSpell, a distributable spell checker for consumer language, is designed to detect and correct various types of spelling errors in Consumer Health Questions. CSpell handles non-word errors, real-words errors, word boundary infraction, punctuation errors, informal expression, and combinations of the above and result in high F1 score and real-time performance. CSpell provides many correction features, configurable options, and Java APIs and can be used as general purpose spelling tools. The following table shows examples of errors corrected by CSpell from consumer health questions. The errors are underlines and the corrections are in italics. NW, RW, and ND stand for non-word, real-word and non-dictionary, respectively.
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Ex-1 | My mom was dianosed early on set deminita 3 years ago. | My mom was diagnosed early onset dementia 3 years ago. |
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