EL-Mossahih V1.0: A hybrid approach for detection and correction of typographical and phonetic transcription errors in Arabic texts

The orthographic correction of the word is one of the fundamental subjects in the natural languages processing and its importance is constantly increasing over time, given the technological advances the world has undergone in recent decades. The aim of this article is to focus on spelling errors correction in the Arabic language, because a considerable delay in research was observed compared to other languages (English or French). We developed a tool for both detection and Correction, that we called El-Mossahih. The latter uses several methods: Dictionary, neighborhood, permutation, phonetic transcription and language model in order to detect and propose a correct solution to the typographical and phonetic transcription errors.