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From: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Word prediction
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Date: 21 Sep 90 18:22:11 GMT
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In article <1990Sep19.035721.14224@zip.eecs.umich.edu>,
gilgalad@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) says:

>Hi.  Does anybody know whether or not there exist programs to
>do word prediction (pop a list up of words given a portion of the word)
>for interactive work on the Amiga?

The SPELL program that comes with Word Perfect dows something like
this.  It will retrieve words that match a pattern, like

   AB???CD??

Also, it uses some sort of sound-alike algorithm (SOUNDEX?) so that
searching for a word like Guvmint might find government and gloveman.

Also, consider using the ARP search command or a grep.  There are
a couple of PD spell checkers that come with pretty large dictionaries.
Both egrep and search offer pretty wild regular expression pattern
languages, so you could match just about anything pretty efficiently.

lee