Bowden, TanyaTanyaBowdenKiraz, George A.George A.Kiraz2026-08-202026-08-201995Bowden, Tanya and George A. Kiraz, ‘A Morphographemic Model for Error Correction in Nonconcatenative Strings.’ In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics. Stroudsburg, PA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 1995.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12111/10897This paper introduces a spelling correction system which integrates seamlessly with morphological analysis using a multi-tape formalism. Handling of various Semitic error problems is illustrated, with reference to Arabic and Syriac examples. The model handles errors vocalisation, diacritics, phonetic syncopation and morphographemic idiosyncrasies, in addition to Damerau errors. A complementary correction strategy for morphologically sound but morphosyntactically ill-formed words is outlined.en-USmorphological analysisSemitic errorsDamerau errorsConference paper