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Spell Checking Service with python using mod_python

What is the best available method for developing a spell check engine (for example, with aspell_python), that works with apache mod_python ? apache 2.0.59+RHEL4+mod_python+aspell_python seems to crash. Any alternative to using aspell_python ? ...

Good alternative for ASpell?

Is there any good alternative to ASpell? It's nice open source, but haven't been updated for a while. The performance is not too good and I am having trouble creating a custom worklist with non-alpha characters. ...

Can I use GNU Aspell for English in my asp.net application?

Aspell-net is a port of the GNU Aspell for .Net Framework. The library itself is open source, and is under the LGPL license, but the english dictionary for aspell is mentioned as copyrighted on the sourceforge.net project home page at http://aspell-net.sourceforge.net/ Did any of you guys use aspell-net before? and what license did you ...

Rails: How to display Umlauts / Special characters with ultrasphinx and aspell?

Hi, I'm using Ultrasphinx for fulltext search, combined with aspell to provide the user with corrections. When I use the german dictionary and enter any Umlaut (öäü) Ultrasphinx::Spell.correct(@search.query) always returns a correction, even when the word is spelled correctly. Also the Umlauts are replaced with ? in the console and ...

Creating custom dictionaries in aspell with the C API

I am using aspell in my application for spell checking (a c/c++ app), and I want to use it to find best alternatives in a custom work list. I don't want to use a standard dictionary, as I only want to find words in my word list. I can find ways of adding words to a dictionary (aspell_speller_add_to_personal and aspell_speller_add_to_se...

Source code spellcheckers is there an open-source solution or should I make my own?

I need a source code spell-checker. Of course there is a closed source ones but I'm looking for an open source solution, That can spell check html files, php source codes any further types would be better. I also thought about making my own since there is a good libraries for spell checking, So what features you think it's good to be ...

Problem with Ultrasphinx & Aspell & Boolean Search (spell check missbehaves...)

Hi, I'm using Ultrasphinx with Aspell spelling support to search a Rails app. I want my users to be able to search using boolean operators ("king OR queen"). I'm using the german aspell directory, since the app is for Germany. The Problem: Ultrasphinx always proposes corrections for the boolean OR ("did you mean 'king OHR queen'") whic...

How to use special chars on aspell custom dictionary?

I'm building a "did you mean" funcionality on an internal search engine, using aspell and php (php-pspell). I have a catalog of products and I want the names of those products to be also words in the dictionary so the "did you mean" can suggest'em. The problem is that when I try to create a custom dictionary with PHP Pspell functions, ...

Aspell Spell Checker on iPhone?

I've managed to compile the aspell as a static library for iPhone. I've the libaspell.a file and included it in my xcode project as a framework. Does anybody know how to use their c/c++ api for iphone? Is there any sample or example somewhere on the net? Thank you for any feedback in advance, John ...

Aspell Dictionary can't be opened

When I try to add a word or to ignore all, Aspell throws the error 'the file "C:/Program Files (x86)/Aspell/en.pws" cannot be opened for writing'. Anyone know what is causing this problem and how to fix it? ...

apache + mod_wsgi + aspell-python on OS X 10.5.8

I have a website that processes user submitted documents in a variety of ways, one of which is to do a spell check on a part of each document. When I set this website up on a Mac Mini (yes, I realize that's a pretty weak piece of equipment for a website, but it's internal and no one outside the office sees it), I remember having some tr...

how can I install pspell in php5/ubuntu ?

I am trying to install pspell for PHP 5 in Ubuntu. I have installed the aspell library which is required to run pspell as shown here I am not sure if there are any settings I need to change, etc. When I try to execute the below mentioned line of code $pspell_link = pspell_new("en"); I get an error Fatal error: Call to undefined func...

emacs windows spell check aspell or hunspell

I use emacs 23.1.50 version on Windows XP operation system. I could not setup hunspell or aspell as part of emacs with the example provided by the emacs wiki. Anyone has working confiugration for windows xp and please help me out. ...

pspell global namespace dictionary

Hi there, is it possible to create something like "a global dictionary" for pspell? I tried a lot but i can only create a personal dictionary for languages which are installed. Am im blind, or is there a better way than just insert a word for the global dictionary to the personal dictionary for each language? Best Regards, Beerweasle...

Problem with apostrophes and other special characters when using aspell in windows

Hi there, We seem to be having a problem with the spell checker on our content management system where it marks the ve part of We’ve as a misspelling. The spellchecker uses aspell which is called from a script on the server which executes the cmd.exe and uses it to pipe a file into aspell (it's a long winded way I know, but our server s...

Regex for getting spelling suggestions from aspell

Given this output from aspell, how can I can get the spelling suggestions: @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.6) & knoledge 12 0: knowledge, knowledge's, pledge, ledge, kludge, sledge, Lodge, lodge, Coolidge, Noelle, knoll, nudge I cooked-up this regex: /[a-z\']+(?=,|\z)/i but I know it would fail i...

Ultrasphinx and Rails: Completely wrong results - Why?

Hey, I'm using Ultrasphinx for searching on a Rails App. Everything seems to be working, the only thing is that the search results are not matching the search query in any way. I really don't understand this. I rebuilt my indexes and config files several times and nothing seems to work. When I perform a search for "test" I get results ...

How would I find common misspellings of a given word using aspell or another tool

For a given word I'd like to find the n closest misspellings. I was wondering if an open source spell checker like aspell would be useful in that context unless you have other suggestions. For example: 'health' would give me: ealth, halth, heallth, healf, ... ...

Aspell decodes dictionary file as latin1 even if both environment and aspell config specifies the encoding as UTF-8

Update Apparently the solution to this is to use yet another configuration parameter to set the encofing: --encodig=UTF-8 on the command line. For example: zby@tvm1:/home/xpapers$ aspell --lang=en create master ./dictionary.local < w Warning: The word "Pérez" is invalid. The character '©' (U+A9) may not appear in the middle of a word...

Using ispell/aspell to spell check camelcased words

I need to spell check a large document containing many camelcased words. I want ispell or aspell to check if the individual words are spelled correctly. So, in case of this word: ScientificProgrezGoesBoink I would love to have it suggest this instead: ScientificProgressGoesBoink Is there any way to do this? (And I mean, whi...