Jodani: A spell checking and suggesting tool for Gujarati language

The spell checker is used in the pre-processing phase of Natural Language Processing systems for applications like Opinion Mining, Text Summarization, Machine Translation, Chatbot etc. A traditional spell checker tool compares the inputted string with an available dictionary of correct words. But as it works on string matching concepts, it is not able to handle inflected words. So, there is a need for a spell checker that overcomes this limitation. In this paper, the Gujarati spell checker tool 4Jodani, is proposed which works on root words, uses string similarity measures to identify wrongly spelled words, and attempts to auto-correct the word or suggest syntactically relevant words.