Sorry, for the late input. For those of you who have the Java 2 Pluggin installed. Check out http://www.saber.net/~dket follow the link for the Internet Spellchecker. You can use aspell and ispell over the net and try out some of the ideas from below. I run a test for Linux 2.2 for some people on the net today, so the machine stays connected on 1/21/99. I'm waiting for Java 2 on Linux to show more. Have fun, Ronald > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kevin > Atkinson > Sent: Monday, January 18, 1999 10:14 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gregory Maxwell; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Aspell Corba integration for Gnome > > > Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > > > Has anyone considerd making a aspell corba servelet for Gnome? > > I've been thinking about it, and I'd like to get some > feedback before > > trying it myself (and make sure no one else is doing it). > > I will be more than happy to support one. I would do it > myself except I > don't have time to learn about how Corba works. > > > Here's how I've been thinking: > > ORBit will run a servlet on demand. One copy per user. > It will manage it's > > config files and there would be a capplet for controling > it (pointing it to > > dictionary files, and configing suggestion ranking algs). > > You might want to have a single server so that they can > all use the same > main word list. > > > The applet will send requests like this: > > checkspelling(language, "This is a complete sentence of > text.", position) > > Position would be the word we are intrested in checking. > The reason for > > sending the complete sentence is for the future > possibility of context > > sensitive suggestion ranking. > > In the future Aspell will support spell checking > algorithms which will > skip words based on there context and frequency of > occurrence. However > in order for this to work a pre scan of the entire document will be > nesseary. See the message with a subject of "Word > skipping by context" > for more information. > > > This would return a true/false and a preranked list of > suggestions. The app > > should also be able to return which suggestion was > picked if any to assist > > the suggestion alg. Has anyone looked into having aspell classify > > misspelling for userdependent mistake-mode modeling? > (i.e. I frequently > > transpose two characters, and aspell would do better for > me to rank such > > suggestions higher). > > That's an interesting idea. However in practices it might > be difficult > to implement. > > > Also, checkspelling(language, "This is another complete > sentence of text.") > > when the position is omitted we can check the whole > sentence and return a > > list of misspelled words and their suggestions. > > The misspelling should also have a position number > attached to so that > the application knows where the misspelled word is located in the > sentence without having to do any extra work. > > > I was thinking there should perhaps be some functions to drop > > checkspelling(s) into a queue that will be checked in a > low priority > > background process. The checker can then send messages > back to the > > application as it checked entries in a fifo manner. This > would be very > > useful for word processors which do misspell underlining. > > That would defiantly be a good idea. > > > This servelet would of course maintain a cache of > correct words, misspelled > > words and suggestions. It might also be useful to keep > an indexed mini > > dictionarry in memory of the most commonly used words > (who's size could be > > determined by free memory/user prefrence and contence > could be a combo of > > pre-built static and dynammically generated user usage). > > Perhaps, however with modern computers I don't think a > mini dictionary > would do any real good except it might speed up checking a bit. > > > Ideally, the interface would be as generic as possible > and the application > > could ask gnome for what checker to use. This would > allow other compeating > > checkers if any evolved. > > I'd also like to know if there has been any work on open > source grammer > > checkers? I'd like to make the spell checker as simmlar > to a grammer > > checker interface as possible. > > I don't know of any Open Source grammar checkers. If any one is > interested in developing one The Link Grammar Parser > (http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/) would be a good place to start. > > > Thanks for any advice. > > -- > Kevin Atkinson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/ > > --- > You are currently subscribed to aspell as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For more info on Aspell go to http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/aspell/ > --- Note: This message was origanlly posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ aspell-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/aspell-user
