I am working on a journal article that compares Aspell and Gspell (Gspell is a java API for spell checking developed by the national library of medicine -- http://umlslex.nlm.nih.gov/nlsRepository/gspell/doc/userDoc/gspell.html )and suggests a method to improve the ranking of the suggested terms in certain very specific cases (specifically, a search engine for medical information).
So far I have found that Aspell significantly outperforms Gspell. The nice thing about Gspell, though, is that it returns a lot of information with each word in the suggestion list, such as the minimum edit distance and score used for ranking. I have noticed that Aspell does not return suggestions ranked simply according to the minimum edit distance, and I need to know exactly what scoring method Aspell uses to sort the suggestion list. If anyone can tell me how to get this information from Aspell I would be grateful. If not, then I guess I am going to have to plunge into the source, so if anyone can give me information about how to plunge into the source and modify it to extract the information I need, that would be ok too. Thanks, Jon Crowell Decision System's Group Brigham and Women's Hospital Haravard Medical School _______________________________________________ Aspell-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-user
