On 04.05.2007, at 00:41, Jacob Rus wrote:
Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote:
On 03.05.2007, at 21:42, Jacob Rus wrote:
- I believe google's spellcheck takes the context of the word
into account when deciding what the correct word is. So popping up a list only for particular words is probably not the greatest idea.
Well, I believe it should but up to now I couldn't find an example for such a context spell checking behaviour. If you find such a behaviour, please let it me know. It seems to me that Google's suggestions are based on the following: If the word is not in the Google's corpus it will allow exact one operation on it, meaning deletion, inserting, or replacing of one character to get a word which is in the corpus. The output is sorted according to these operations, I guess.
No, I think you are pretty clearly wrong about that. As an example, if you spell check "rought with", the first suggestion will be "wrought", as "wrought with «foo»" is a commonly-used construction. If you replace "with" with some other word, the suggestion will change, and in most cases will be "rough", instead.
In fact, in every example that I tried, Google figured out the intended word from context. I don't know their exact algorithm, but it clearly takes neighboring words into account.
To be honest I only check it with German ;)
OK if that is the case, of course one should change the script.
Hans