> Common typos and scannos are not very useful stats since that is not what soundslike > are used for. If those are the only mistakes soundslike are not needed at all. > What I need are true spelling errors where the user really doesn't know how to spell > the word.
In an OCR context, though, it would be handy to have a "lookslike" instead of a "soundslike". I asked about this a couple of years ago (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/aspell-user/2002-07/msg00002.html), but I don't have the C smarts to try the solutions that Kevin suggested then (modifying the weights in TypoEditDistanceWeightsin util/typo_editdist.hh). It sounds like Lars has the data to attempt this kind of tuning; if anyone tackles this, I hope they'll announce it here! Peter Peter Binkley Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian Information Technology Services 4-30 Cameron Library University of Alberta Libraries Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2J8 Phone: (780) 492-3743 Fax: (780) 492-9243 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Aspell-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-user
