spellchecking

Best way to incorporate spell checkers with a build process

I try to externalize all strings (and other constants) used in any application I write, for many reasons that are probably second-nature to most stack-overflowers, but one thing I would like to have is the ability to automate spell checking of any user-visible strings. This poses a couple problems: Not all strings are user-visible, an...

Eclipse spelling engine does not exist

I'm using Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede) with CDT 5 on Windows. When the integrated spell checker doesn't know some word, it proposes (among others) the option to add the word to a user dictionary. If the user dictionary doesn't exist yet, the spell checker offers then to help configuring it and shows the "General/Editors/Text Editors/Spelling...

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 ? ...

Batch source-code aware spell check

What is a tool or technique that can be used to perform spell checks upon a whole source code base and its associated resource files? The spell check should be source code aware meaning that it would stick to checking string literals in the code and not the code itself. Bonus points if the spell checker understands common resource file...

What's the best way of spell checking an entire web site in one go?

Preferably server-side (Linux) or client-side (Windows) tools rather than web-based tools. Although, come to think of it, web tools would be interesting too. And there must be an easy mechanism of adding domain-specific terminology. ...

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. ...

Spell-check in Aquamacs Emacs won't work: "Wrong endian order."

This is aquamacs 1.5 on a macbook. Exact error when I try to spell-check: Error: The file "/Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0//en-common.rws" is not in the proper format. Wrong endian order. ADDED: I indeed had the wrong version of cocoAspell. But installing the right version didn't work until I actually wiped (...

Can someone compare a Fuzzy Query to a LuceneDictionary solution?

According to this post on how to do query auto-completionsuggestions in lucene getting "Did You Mean" functionality best involves using a LuceneDictionary. But I probably would have used a fuzzy query for this before reading this post. Now I'm wondering which is faster, which is easier to implement? ...

VB6.0 MDI Spell Checker

I have a VB6.0 project with MDI parent and child form. Now I need to check spelling and grammar in few text boxes on that child form. Please help with code example. ...

Inline Disabling of Firefox Spellcheck?

I researched this a while ago and can't remember how to do it. I want to be able to prevent Firefox from running it's spell-checking functionality on certain input fields from within the page. I know it's possible but can't remember how to set it up. ...

.NET Spell Check control?

Are there any libraries out there (preferably a self contained Text Edit Control) for .NET that have Spell Check capabilities. I would like to add the typical red underline to miss-spelled words in the edit area of my application. Edit: To clarify, this is for WinForms ...

.NET text editor that accepts HTML and input/output with spellchecking

I have been searching for something that does this for a while now, but with no luck yet... We have an internal application that stores/uses text in HTML format. Now I am looking for a new control for editing it. I do not need a full-featured HTML editor, just something that can deal with simple formatting. It also needs spell check...

Spell checking city names?

I figure this problem is easier than just a regular spell checker since the list of U.S cities is small compared to all known English words. Anyhow, here's the problem: I have text files with full of city names; some of which are spelled correctly and some which aren't. What kind of algorithm can I use to correct all the misspellings ...

How to best implement swear words handler (.NET preferred)?

For an ASP.NET application, what is the Best Practice implementation method for a custom swear word remover/replacer? If this is a data table solution, is there free resource to get the data? (Similar to finding a public dictionary table that you can import to your system for spellchecking) ...

How does the Google "Did you mean?" Algorithm work?

I've been developing an internal website for a portfolio management tool. There is a lot of text data, company names etc. I've been really impressed with some search engines ability to very quickly respond to queries with "Did you mean: xxxx". I need to be able to intelligently take a user query and respond with not only raw search re...

Automatic spell checking of words in a text

[EDIT]In Short: How would you write an automatic spell checker? The idea is that the checker builds a list of words from a known good source (a dictionary) and automatically adds new words when they are used often enough. Words which haven't been used a while should be phased out. So if I delete part of a scene which contains "Mungrohype...

Sample [English] Dictionary SQL Script to populate table?

Does anyone know of a link to a reference on the web that contains a sample English dictionary word script, that can be used to populate a dictionary table in SQL Server? I can handle a .txt or .csv file, or something similar. Alternatively, I'm adding custom spellchecking functionality to my web apps...but I don't want to integrate th...

How do spell checkers work?

I need to implement a spell checker in C. Basically, I need all the standard operations... I need to be able to spell check a block of text, make word suggestions and dynamically add new words to the index. I'd kind of like to write this myself, tho I really don't know where to begin. ...

Detecting syllables in a word

I need to find a fairly efficient way to detect syllables in a word. E.g., invisible -> in-vi-sib-le There are some syllabification rules that could be used: V CV VC CVC CCV CCCV CVCC *where V is a vowel and C is a consonant. e.g., pronunciation (5 Pro-nun-ci-a-tion; CV-CVC-CV-V-CVC) I've tried few methods, among which were using...

Is there an easy way to Spellcheck with TinyMCE in .NET

Is there any way to use TinyMCE in .NET and use the spellchecker without installing PHP as well? ...