A Causal Classification of Orthography Errors in Web Texts

Errors, even at the spelling level, can provide useful insight into the nature of a written text. This paper presents a classification of spelling errors in Web texts based on their causes (misspellings, typos and intentional deviations), linking them to the attitudes of their authors and the circumstances of their writing. Examples are drawn from blog and forum entries in English and Italian.

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