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title: "CHIME: An Efficient Error-Tolerant Chinese Pinyin Input Method"
authors:
  - "Yabin Zheng"
  - "Chen Li"
  - "Maosong Sun"
doi: "10.5591/978-1-57735-516-8/IJCAI11-424"
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2011/424"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2011/0424.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2011
pages: "2551-2555"
track: ""
keywords:
---

# CHIME: An Efficient Error-Tolerant Chinese Pinyin Input Method

Yabin Zheng, Chen Li, Maosong Sun

*Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 2551-2555. DOI: [10.5591/978-1-57735-516-8/IJCAI11-424](https://doi.org/10.5591/978-1-57735-516-8/IJCAI11-424)

## Abstract

Chinese Pinyin input methods are very important for Chinese language processing. In many cases, users may make typing errors. For example, a user wants to type in shenme (meaning what in English) but may type in shenem instead. Existing Pinyin input methods fail in converting such a Pinyin sequence with errors to the right Chinese words. To solve this problem, we developed an efficient error-tolerant Pinyin input method called CHIME'' that can handle typing errors. By incorporating state-of-the-art techniques and language-specific features, the method achieves a better performance than state-of-the-art input methods. It can efficiently find relevant words in milliseconds for an input Pinyin sequence.