Typo correction in domain-specific texts using FastText

Abstract

Analyzing customer reviews are quite important for customer satisfaction. Customer reviews might contain spelling mistakes, which causes data pollution and decreases the efficiency of the analyzes. In this study, a domain-specific solution is proposed by using the data related to tourism. Even if there are several applications to correct typos in Turkish, domain-specific solutions are limited. Since a correction should be specific for the meaning of a typo, this study is required. For the study, a FastText model-oriented typo correction algorithm has been developed by using customer reviews in the tourism industry. The results are compared with a commonly used correction application and it is observed that the algorithm developed is more successful for correcting typos in tourism specific phrases.