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[Aspell-user] Re: How to get Aspell to not suggest profanities
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Derek Roff |
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[Aspell-user] Re: How to get Aspell to not suggest profanities |
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Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:15:38 -0600 |
It seems to me that this issue could be most directly addressed at the
dictionary level. Removing the profanities from your chosen Aspell
dictionary would prevent those words from being suggested. This would
be far more reliable than trying to guess all the possible words that
might seem, to Aspell, similar enough to trigger the profanity
suggestion.
By coincidence, Kevin Atkinson posted this response today:
-- Is there a way to retrieve a plaintext, LF-delimited list of words
from a
.rws Aspell dictionary? I've seen information on how to create .rws
dictionaries from lists of words, but not vice versa.
aspell dump master
I'm thinking that you could "dump" your dictionary word list, edit it
as desired, re-encode it and solve your problem. Whether the license
for the dictionary that you use would permit you to remove words is
another question. I would hope so.
Good luck,
Derek Roff
--On Sunday, July 8, 2007 12:00 PM -0400 address@hidden
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Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 10:47:26 +1200
From: "Skalk van der Merwe" <address@hidden>
Subject: [Aspell-user] How to get Aspell to not suggest profanities
To: <address@hidden>
Dear All
Here at VUW we make use of the Aspell software to provide spelling
corrections / suggestions for the Library Catalogue.
http://victoria.lconz.ac.nz/
Sometime when users search for a legitimate word Aspell would suggest
a profanity.
For example Cnut (England's Viking king) ; 'hispan? cuentes' and
'FCUK' all produced some profanities in our implementation of Aspell.
In the past I just added the word that produced the profanity to
custom dictionary. Aspell would of course now see these words as
legitimate and not suggest a profanity. To do this effectively I need
to know what words are likely to produce profanities, which in the
long run is not a good proposition.
So, is there a switch that one could use to turn of the profanities?
Kind regards,
Skalk
Skalk van der Merwe
Systems Support Librarian
Victoria University of Wellington
www.victoria.ac.nz/library
Derek Roff
Language Learning Center
Ortega Hall 129, MSC03-2100
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
505/277-7368, fax 505/277-3885
Internet: address@hidden
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