Introduction to SIGHAN 2015 bake-off for chinese spelling check

This paper introduces the SIGHAN 2015 Bake-off for Chinese Spelling Check, including task description, data preparation, performance metrics, and evaluation results. The competition reveals current state-of-The-Art NLP techniques in dealing with Chinese spelling checking. All data sets with gold standards and evaluation tool used in this bake-off are publicly available for future research. © 2015 Proceedings of the 8th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, SIGHAN 2015 - co-located with 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, ACL IJCNLP 2015. All rights reserved.