SPELL CHECKING AND ERROR CORRECTING SYSTEM FOR TEXT PARAGRAPHS WRITTEN IN PUNJABI LANGUAGE USING HYBRID APPROACH

Spell checking and correcting them is very important phase of any word processing system. There are various word processing software are available for various languages like English, Hindi. We have developed a spell checker and error correcting system for Punjabi language. The proposed system use hybrid approach which s a combination of various approaches like rule based approach, dicti onary lookup approach , edit distance approach and N - Gram approach. Proposed system is tested with various inputs collected from different sources and results are found very accurate than that of existing system.