-Bryan
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 03:11:20PM -0500, bryan vold wrote:
> I also wrote a phonetics-based spell checker. Essentially a word is broken
> up into "sound pieces" and the pieces are then replaced by the
> super-classes of sounds it could represent, and then try all known
> (defined) spellings of these sound pieces on these words. I am very
> interested in this area and would be interested what approach you took to
> creating a suggested word ranking. One has to be a little careful around
> this as IBM owns a patent on this technology, which they've tried to make
> as all-encompassing as possible. If you are interested, perhaps we could
> trade some ideas and/or code. I'm thinking about releasing what I've done
> so far to the world under an as-yet-undetermined license. Let me know what
> you think.
>
> -Bryan
>
> PS
> My checker will correctly return "laugh" as a candidate for laff.
>
> On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 12:20:24PM -0700, Josiah Carlson wrote:
> > I have noticed in the most recent built that is downloadable from the
> > abiworld web page, that there is a spelling checker, but not a suggestor.
> >
> > For a CS class that I took this past spring, I wrote a spelling
> > checker/suggestor that I believe could be put to good use. Namely in the
> > fact that it is fast and that it has good suggestions that other programs do
> > not come up with (*point and laugh at Microsoft Word*), even with a smaller
> > dictionary of words.
> >
> > If someone could possibly acquire a plaintext version of a word dictionary
> > that is as large as others (MS word has a 64k word dictionary), I would be
> > willing to donate my source (I need to modify it a tad, for it was
> > originally written to use a poorly constructed word class (damn integration
> > classes).
> >
> > I would also be willing to include custom external header files so that the
> > integration between the sources could start as soon as I get them made up,
> > rather than having to wait until I finish with the source.
> >
> > If you are interested, please respond as soon as you get the chance.
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Josiah Carlson
> >
> >
> >
> >
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