Transformer-Based Spell Check

Learn how transformers can be applied to create a modern spell checker.

Spell correction as machine translation

We know that a transformer can be trained to translate a sentence from a source language to a target language. So, what if we apply a similar approach but instead use misspelled words as the "source language”, and correctly spelled words in our language of choice as the "target language"?

xfspell explanation

xfspell utilizes the GitHub typo corpus ...