Virastyar is a free and open-source (FOSS) spell checker. It stands upon the shoulders of many free/libre/open-source (FLOSS) libraries developed for processing low-resource languages, especially Persian and RTL languages
Publications:
Kashefi, O., Nasri, M., & Kanani, K. (2010). Towards Automatic Persian Spell Checking. SCICT.
Kashefi, O., Sharifi, M., & Minaie, B. (2013). A novel string distance metric for ranking Persian respelling suggestions. Natural Language Engineering, 19(2), 259-284.
Rasooli, M. S., Kahefi, O., & Minaei-Bidgoli, B. (2011). Effect of adaptive spell checking in Persian. In NLP-KE
Contributors:
Omid Kashefi
Azadeh Zamanifar
Masoumeh Mashaiekhi
Meisam Pourafzal
Reza Refaei
Mohammad Hedayati
Kamiar Kanani
Mehrdad Senobari
Sina Iravanin
Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli
Mohsen Hoseinalizadeh
Mitra Nasri
Alireza Dehlaghi
Fatemeh Ahmadi
Neda PourMorteza
Features
- Spell Checking
- Grammatical Error Correction
- Writing Style
- Punctuation Correction
- Standardization (ISIRI 6219)
- Pinglish Conversion
- Easy Date and Calendar Conversion