spellchecking

Spell checker software

Hello Guys, I have been assigned a task to find a decent spell checker (UK English) preferably the free one for a project that we are doing. I have looked at Google AJAX API for this. The project contains some young person's (kids less than 18 years old) data which shouldn't allow exposing or storing outside the application boundaries...

Data on the Frequency of Edit Operations Required to Correct a Misspelt Word

Does anybody know of any data that relates to the frequency of the types of mistakes the people make when they misspell a word? I'm not referring to words themselves, but tje errors that are made by the typist. For example, I personally make transposition errors the most followed by deletion errors (that is, not including a letter I sh...

spell checker: ignore CamelCaseWords

Is there a way to get the spell checker to properly check camel cased words? "ThisIsSpelledRightly" would be marked as spelled correctly, but "ThisIsNottSpeledRihgt" would be flagged? I use Xubuntu and firefox. I tried asking this over on superuser, but it got ignored. ...

Free en-GB dictionary for spell check in Silverlight

I'm trying to use the Vectorlight spell checker for Silverlight. The demo code comes with the en-US.dic file, but I'm trying to find a compatible one for British English. I have found one here but it doesn't work. The format seems similar to the en-US one, but it just doesn't work (i.e. it doesn't suggest any words). ...

Word Spellcheck in VBscript for HTML content

I am using CKEditor as my WYSIWYG editor. I understand that it comes with some of spellchecking plugins. However - we choose word as the spell check engine. When We try to do the spell check, Word shows warnings on the HTML tags. If we remove the HTML tags, we loose the formatting. It has become either or. Can anyone suggest - how we can...

What is a good sample solrconfig.xml for django-haystack?

I am building out a solr instance for django, but the example provided from solr is super verbose, with many things that are not relevant to haystack. A sample with spelling suggestions, morelikethis, and faceting, without the extra stuff that haystack doesn't use would go a long way to helping me understand what is needed and what isn't...

WPF Spellcheck Engine takes up too much memory.

Each datatemplate in my WPF ItemsControl contains FIVE custom bindable richtextbox controls. It is a data-driven app that for authoring multiple-choice questions --> The question and four answer choices must all support: 1) Spell check 2) Rich formatting (otherwise I'd use regular textboxes) The spell check object in .NET 4 has a Frie...

Open Office Spellchecker / Java API

Hi all, Is it possible to make use of the Open Office spell-checker outside of Open Office for other Java programs? Walter ...

Solr spellcheck configuration

I am trying to build the spellcheck index with IndexBasedSpellChecker <lst name="spellchecker"> <str name="name">default</str> <str name="field">text</str> <str name="spellcheckIndexDir">./spellchecker</str> </lst> And I want to specify the dynamic field "*_text" as the field option: <dynamicField name="*_text" stored="false" t...

What's the format of the OpenOffice dictionaries?

Does anyone know what the format of the OpenOffice dictionary files are? As far as I can see there is one word per line, and some flags that presumably tells me something about the word. Here's a couple of lines from the english dictionary as an example: absoluteness/S absorbency/SM abstract/ShTVDPiGY absurdness/S And from the Norweg...

How to implement automatic replacement of typos in Delphi2010

I am looking for a way to develop a plugin for Delphi 2010IDE and have yet to find any information on that topic, not even on how to get started. What I want to accomplish is some kind of auto-spellchecker wich can be given a list of common typos (flase instead of false, .cerate instead of .create and the like) and replace them with the...

Handling typos in emails or signing up users ?

I have a web app at which visitors are signing up and getting a newsletter to the email they registered with. I am using only a single email field in the signup form, since I wish to reduce the number of fields plus I figure most people (like me) copy and paste the email which mean a typo would propagate to the secondary verification fi...

Good Code Spell Checker for Visual Studio 2010

Are there any good (preferably free) solutions out there? I have already found these: Spell Checker Code Spelling Checker Extension for Visual Studio 2010 (VSX) but will appreciate more suggestions. ...

Preprocessing a word before spell checking in Vim

Hi all, I use Vim's spell checking to validate texts in Russian. We have letter ё in our alphabet which is often replaced with simple е. So, for example, word ёжик из written as ежик. It is a bad tone actually. Its like using - (hyphen) where — (em-dash) is required, like using "computer" quotes forgetting about existence of „typographi...

I need a language dictionary

I need to add dictionary facilities to an Asp.net MVC app. Does anyone know a library that I could use? Where can I get word definitions from? Any help is appreciated. ...

Text Correction in Android

Hi friends, I there any support for Spell Correction given in Android SDK. 1) Select/highlight text to be corrected by touching android touch screen. 2) A drop down list of alternative suggestions will be displayed below the text area to be corrected. Please Suggest me how can I do this. Thanx in Advance ...

PHP: Add words to pspell?

I am using pspell like this: $ps = pspell_new("en"); if(!pspell_check($ps, $word)) { $suggestion = pspell_suggest($ps, $word); } However I want to added some industry terms to the list. I looked up pspell_add_to_session which says the first param is supposed to be int $dictionary_link But I do not know what that is and there i...

What is a good algorithm to traverse a Trie to check for spelling suggestions?

Assuming that a general Trie of dictionary words is built, what would be the best method to check for the 4 cases of spelling mistakes - substitution, deletion, transposition and insertion during traversal? One method is to figure out all the words within n edit distances of a given word and then checking for them in the Trie. This isn'...

PHP: How to tell if a string contains any special characters?

I am using pspell to spell check some words. However if the word is something like G3523B it clearly is not a misspelled word but pspell changes it to GB. I would like somehow to qualify a word as a word before trying to spell check it. Maybe checking to see if the string contains any numbers or special characters. So what is the best w...

.NET control for spellchecking html files (.NET)?

I would like to spell check html files programmatically using C#? The text only without the tags. Any recommendations? Please mention ones that strip out the tags. ...