Building a Khmer Spelling Checker
Learning about the BK-tree and the Edit Distance (a.k.a Levenshtein Distance)
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9 min readMay 26, 2022
I. Motivation
Recently, I had the opportunity to work on a Khmer keyboard app. Like any other keyboard app, spelling checking and spelling suggestions are core features of the user experience. While trying to implement these features, I came…