Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!orca!tekecs!frip!andrew
From: andrew@frip.wv.tek.com (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Spelling checker routines
Message-ID: <11348@tekecs.GWD.TEK.COM>
Date: 28 Apr 89 00:37:23 GMT
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Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon
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	"Checking to see if a word is spelled correctly (based on the
	dictionary) seems fairly simple, but I also would like to have
	it suggest correct spellings for misspelled words. Does anyone
	know of a good way to do that?"

The approach used in the spelling corrector component of the Unica(tm)
utility set was to look through a (separate) dictionary of commonly
misspelled words, which includes the correct spelling:

	mispell:misspell
	seperate:separate

etc.  Any hit is an unconditional misspelling, and the utility suggests
the replacement word to the user.

When other processing finds a misspelled word (a word isn't in the
dictionary, it asks the user if it's right, the user says no), then it
asks for a replacement and adds an entry to the misspelled-word
dictionary.  After a few weeks, the user's commonly misspelled words
are pretty much all in there.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (uunet!tektronix!orca!frip!andrew)      [UUCP]
                        (andrew%frip.wv.tek.com@relay.cs.net)   [ARPA]