Solving Homophone Confusion [closed]

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This may be a question that is not suitable for stackoverflow, but I had no other better place to ask it. I was wondering if there are any known tools (non-commercial) that can be used to solve the homophone confusions such as these in a sentence?

• it's vs its
• you're vs your

I am new to NLP and I haven't used any of the known tools. Tried to search for these in google but nothing useful shows up. Are there any parts in NLTK or CoreNLP that cover this?

Answer 1

I have no experience with this topic but I found a how to PDF that may be of some use to you.

How to solve homophone problems

Answer 2

It's no complete solution, but LanguageTool has some rules for this. See the rule file and search for rulegroup id="IT_IS"(disclaimer: I'm the maintainer of LanguageTool). After the Deadline also uses a rule-based approach, only that it tries to avoid useless suggestions by filtering its suggestion against a large n-gram database.