Martin has created a Google Group for his spell checker, and
discussions have been ongoing since c4lcon about how to contribute it
to Lucene. You can learn more about it here:
<http://groups.google.com/group/spelt>
Martin has packaged the code with tests for folks to try it out easily.
Erik
On Apr 3, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
I haven't had time to look at it yet, but someone at Code4Lib
conference
proposed a more sophisticated approach to spell checking that sounded
really interesting to me, and said he was going to share the code. I
hope to have time to investigate at some point.
Let's see if I can find it on the conference page.... yeah, it was
Martin Haye. You can watch his presentation here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4028600349627496246&hl=en
Looks like he's *martin*.*haye*[at]gmail.com. During the lightning
talk, he said he didn't want to distribute the code seperately but
wanted to include it in Lucene if possible---but later in the
conference, he said he had been convinced by the interest in it to
distriburte the code as it's own standalone thing, and planned to do
that presently.
If anyone does or has explored using martin's code, please let us know
about your experience.
Jonathan
Kevin Kierans wrote:
Has anyone created their own "dictionaries"
for aspell? We've created blank delimited
lists of words from our opac. One for title,
one for subjects, and one for authors. (We're thinking
of a series one as well)
We would like to use
one of these word lists to offer suggestions
depending on which search the patron is making.
We're assuming we can make better suggestions
if the words come from our actual opac.
We've got it working with the dictionary that
comes with aspell, but having problems (we can't do it!)
substituting our own "dictionaries."
Does anyone have any experience/knowledge/hints/pointers
they can share with us?
We are using linux, php 5, aspell 0.50.5, and
php -> pspell functions.
Thanks,
Kevin
TNRD Library System, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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Jonathan Rochkind
Sr. Programmer/Analyst
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410.516.8886
rochkind (at) jhu.edu
