NooJ Morphological Grammars for Stenotype Writing

Stenotyping is a writing method system used to transcribe spoken texts, rapidly and in real time, using a mechanical or digital device equipped with a special keyboard. This device is called a stenotype, stenotype machine, shorthand machine or steno writer, and it is a specialized chorded keyboard or typewriter allowing to performing beats of one or more keys simultaneously. Stenotyping requires the application of specific coded writing systems intended to limit and accelerate the number of beats. Whereas high-speed beats often generate a high amount of typos, the creation of a stenotype writing method based on a non-casual combination of morphemes would rely on a defined list of elements to be combined (i.e., the morphemes of a language) together with a production syntax (that is, the morphological rules of a language). Therefore, in this paper, we will show how to use NooJ linguistic resources and morphological grammars to build and implement a system for real-time typos automatic correction during stenotype writing.