Re: Features?

[Kevin Atkinson]

JAmes Atwill wrote:
> 
> Hi,  I've been playing a bit with aspell, and looking at other spell
> checkers, and a feature that'd be fairly easy to implement, and useful
> too, is the checkers ability to learn commonly made typos by the user. If
> 
> I type "fotz" when I meant to type "hello", and I tell aspell that I've
> replaced the noted typo of "fotz" with "hello", next time it sees "fotz",
> it could suggest "hello".

That is a good idea.  In fact I could extent this one step farther by
having two levels.  One which will just replace the work without
prompting and one which will only suggest it.

The only problem is that when used as a library or through aspell -a
mode the application will have to communicate the replacement word used
to the spell checker.

Some one else also discussed using a neural network that Aspell could
adapt it self to how the user misspells.  What do you think of that
idea?

Kevin Atkinson
address@hidden
http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/