Abstract

Chinese Pinyin input methods are very importan-t 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. Ex-isting 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 incor-porating state-of-the-art techniques and language-specific features, the method achieves a better per-formance than state-of-the-art input methods. It can efficiently find relevant words in milliseconds for an input Pinyin sequence.