Re: Aspell Corba integration for Gnome

[Ronald Kuetemeier]

Sorry, for the late input.
For those of you who have the Java 2 Pluggin installed.
Check out http://www.saber.net/~dket follow the link for the Internet
Spellchecker. You can use aspell and ispell over the net and try out
some of the ideas from below.
I run a test for Linux 2.2 for some people on the net today, so the
machine stays connected on 1/21/99. I'm waiting for Java 2 on Linux
to show more.
Have fun,
Ronald


> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of Kevin
> Atkinson
> Sent: Monday, January 18, 1999 10:14 AM
> To: Gregory Maxwell; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Aspell Corba integration for Gnome
>
>
> Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone considerd making a aspell corba servelet for Gnome?
> > I've been thinking about it, and I'd like to get some
> feedback before
> > trying it myself (and make sure no one else is doing it).
>
> I will be more than happy to support one.  I would do it
> myself except I
> don't have time to learn about how Corba works.
>
> > Here's how I've been thinking:
> > ORBit will run a servlet on demand. One copy per user.
> It will manage it's
> > config files and there would be a capplet for controling
> it (pointing it to
> > dictionary files, and configing suggestion ranking algs).
>
> You might want to have a single server so that they can
> all use the same
> main word list.
>
> > The applet will send requests like this:
> > checkspelling(language, "This is a complete sentence of
> text.", position)
> > Position would be the word we are intrested in checking.
> The reason for
> > sending the complete sentence is for the future
> possibility of context
> > sensitive suggestion ranking.
>
> In the future Aspell will support spell checking
> algorithms which will
> skip words based on there context and frequency of
> occurrence.  However
> in order for this to work a pre scan of the entire document will be
> nesseary.  See the message with a subject of "Word
> skipping by context"
> for more information.
>
> > This would return a true/false and a preranked list of
> suggestions. The app
> > should also be able to return which suggestion was
> picked if any to assist
> > the suggestion alg. Has anyone looked into having aspell classify
> > misspelling for userdependent mistake-mode modeling?
> (i.e. I frequently
> > transpose two characters, and aspell would do better for
> me to rank such
> > suggestions higher).
>
> That's an interesting idea.  However in practices it might
> be difficult
> to implement.
>
> > Also, checkspelling(language, "This is another complete
> sentence of text.")
> > when the position is omitted we can check the whole
> sentence and return a
> > list of misspelled words and their suggestions.
>
> The misspelling should also have a position number
> attached to so that
> the application knows where the misspelled word is located in the
> sentence without having to do any extra work.
>
> > I was thinking there should perhaps be some functions to drop
> > checkspelling(s) into a queue that will be checked in a
> low priority
> > background process. The checker can then send messages
> back to the
> > application as it checked entries in a fifo manner. This
> would be very
> > useful for word processors which do misspell underlining.
>
> That would defiantly be a good idea.
>
> > This servelet would of course maintain a cache of
> correct words, misspelled
> > words and suggestions. It might also be useful to keep
> an indexed mini
> > dictionarry in memory of the most commonly used words
> (who's size could be
> > determined by free memory/user prefrence and contence
> could be a combo of
> > pre-built static and dynammically generated user usage).
>
> Perhaps, however with modern computers I don't think a
> mini dictionary
> would do any real good except it might speed up checking a bit.
>
> > Ideally, the interface would be as generic as possible
> and the application
> > could ask gnome for what checker to use. This would
> allow other compeating
> > checkers if any evolved.
> > I'd also like to know if there has been any work on open
> source grammer
> > checkers? I'd like to make the spell checker as simmlar
> to a grammer
> > checker interface as possible.
>
> I don't know of any Open Source grammar checkers.  If any one is
> interested in developing one The Link Grammar Parser
> (http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/) would be a good place to start.
>
> > Thanks for any advice.
>
> --
> Kevin Atkinson
> address@hidden
> http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/
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