• Acknowledgement
• Historical Perspective
• 1980s
• Areas
• Why Empiricism?
• Noisy Channel Model
• Bayesian Classification
• A Pronunciation Example
• Bayes' Rule
• Prior Probability and Likelihood
• Bayesian Classification Applied
  To Spelling Correction
• Proposing Candidates
• Ranking Candidates
• Prior Probability
• Computing the Likelihood Term
  
• Computing
• Using the Confusion Matrices
• Result
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