Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-02-01 Thread Scott Morrow
After seeing this thread on SpellCheck I've added a stack to revonline under Utilities - Spell Checker in OSX or Scott's user space. This stack demonstrates how to use Jean-Baptiste LE STANG's http://www.lestang.org/ free Scripting Addition XSpell.osax to add OSX's spell checking ability

Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-31 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Soundex and some derivatives are described at http://www.creativyst.com/Doc/Articles/SoundEx1/SoundEx1.htm On Jan 29, 2005, at 4:32 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: I know two phonetic search/match algoritms, one is metaphone but there's also one called

Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-29 Thread Sivakatirswami
Alex: Thanks *so* much for this... I really need it... if anyone gets their head around some fast algorithms for pulling up a short suggestion list before I do, please post it. My context is that most words that the users will mis-spell are specialized (sanskrit, tamil, names of obscure

Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-29 Thread Brian Yennie
Hi, You might check out something like this: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/doubleMetaphone.html There are other similar algorithms also, but basically it would allow you to make phonetic matches. You might also look at some of the links here: http://aspell.sourceforge.net/ And here is another

Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-29 Thread Andre Garzia
I know two phonetic search/match algoritms, one is metaphone but there's also one called soundex, but I don't recall urls... good luck andre On Jan 29, 2005, at 7:28 PM, Brian Yennie wrote: Hi, You might check out something like this: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/doubleMetaphone.html There are

Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-29 Thread Alex Tweedly
Sivakatirswami wrote: ... if anyone gets their head around some fast algorithms for pulling up a short suggestion list before I do, please post it. I'd say it doesn't need to be fast; it will only happen when the word is not in the dictionary, and the result will be the user is consulted, and

Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-28 Thread James Hurley
Message: 11 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 01:14:02 + From: Alex Tweedly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel) To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Then I tried

Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-28 Thread FlexibleLearning
FWIW, an alternative Rev spell checker is available at _www.flexibleLearning.com/xtalk.htm_ (http://www.flexibleLearning.com/xtalk.htm) . /H ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-28 Thread Alex Tweedly
James Hurley wrote: Coming from FORTRAN, I have never really appreciated the more flexible use of arrays in Runtime Revolution. Your solution to the spell check problem is a Runtime revelation. I know what you mean about the difference from Fortran to recent languages. I kind of wish they'd

SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-27 Thread Roger . E . Eller
During the course of helping my son prepare for a test at school, I created an educational FlashCard stack that allows him to input his own QA list. Does someone perhaps have a library stack that can spellcheck user input of a text field? Do you include a word list, or do you know of one that

Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-27 Thread Andre Garzia
On Jan 27, 2005, at 3:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During the course of helping my son prepare for a test at school, I created an educational FlashCard stack that allows him to input his own QA list. Does someone perhaps have a library stack that can spellcheck user input of a text field? Do

RE: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-27 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
directly as a text file or something. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 12:59 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel) During the course of helping my son

Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-27 Thread Alex Tweedly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During the course of helping my son prepare for a test at school, I created an educational FlashCard stack that allows him to input his own QA list. Does someone perhaps have a library stack that can spellcheck user input of a text field? Do you include a word list, or

Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-27 Thread James Hurley
Message: 10 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:58:50 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel) To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii During the course of helping my son prepare

Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-27 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Thank you to Andre, Jonathan, Alex, and Jim!!! Your great suggestions and word lists have provided me the necessary ingredients to achieve my goal. I will probably post further questions for optimizing the speed of word comparisons. If you have ideas or a script that works well, please post it

Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-27 Thread Alex Tweedly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you to Andre, Jonathan, Alex, and Jim!!! Your great suggestions and word lists have provided me the necessary ingredients to achieve my goal. I will probably post further questions for optimizing the speed of word comparisons. If you have ideas or a script that

Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your great suggestions and word lists have provided me the necessary ingredients to achieve my goal. I came in a little late in this thread, but here's another word list: http://www.nkuitse.com/FRELI/ I've used it in several projects. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |