Challenge: Improving Our Basic Spellchecker
Apply what you have learned about improving a spellchecker in this exercise.
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Problem statement
Below, we’ve provided the completed spellchecker, but feel free to copy and paste your own here. A much larger test set of words for testing the model is also included in test_set.txt
file. This time, the test set will not always match the output of the Norvig spellchecker as it is based on a corpus of real spelling errors.
Your task is to improve the Norvig model. You can utilize the methods discussed in this section, or invent/research a different method that was not mentioned above. Do not feel obligated to try them all. The final project in this course will partially involve creating a spellchecker, so this can be seen as a good first step! The more done now means less later. A good goal would be to try to improve our spellchecker to beat a 74% threshold on this test set.
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