Hi,
I am using aspell to as part of a website search engine, to provide a
'did you mean' type function: user input is checked against a dictionary
of words on the site, and if any are indicated as misspelt, the user is
offered a suggestion.
Some of the terms entered are medical, in particular drug names and
references (e.g. interleukin1, her2) which I would like to add to my
personal word list so they can be used as suggestions. The overall
intent of the feature is to make it easier for non-medical users to
search, without them needing to type and spell long medical terms correctly.
A particular problem is that if I ask aspell whether the word 'her2' is
correctly spelt, it tells me it isn't, and suggests that i meant 'herd'!
The numbers are not always at the end, sometimes in the middle e.g.
interleukin1beta.
I understand from the docs that aspell ignores numbers when spell checking.
My questions are:
- is there any way to add words with numbers into a personal
dictionary so that they can be used as suggestions (i am assuming not,
but confirmation from someone more familiar with aspell than me would be
useful!)
- has anyone else dealt with anything similar and what did worked well?
Thanks for any assistance!
Miles
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