UzZaman, NaushadKhan, Mumit2026-08-022026-08-022005-12-01N. UzZaman and M. Khan, "A Double Metaphone encoding for Bangla and its application in spelling checker," 2005 International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, Wuhan, China, 2005, pp. 705-710, doi: 10.1109/NLPKE.2005.1598827.0780393619, 97807803936152-s2.0-33847333264https://hdl.handle.net/10361/28730We present a Double Metaphone encoding for Bangla that can be used by spelling checkers to improve the quality of suggestions for misspelled words. The complex rules of Bangla spelling present a significant challenge in producing suggestions for a misspelled word when employing the traditional edit-distance methods; one must take phonetic similarity into account for the suggested alternatives to be reasonably accurate. We propose a Double Metaphone encoding for Bangla, taking into account the various contest-sensitive rules, including those involving the large repertoire of consonant clusters in Bangla, and present a comparison with the traditional edit-distance based methods in producing suggestions for misspelled words.705-710en-USfalseBanglaBengaliDouble metaphonePhonetic encodingSpelling checkerSpelling suggestionsBengali language.Reading--Phonetic method.Spelling reform.Conference Proceeding10.1109/NLPKE.2005.1598827