[TxMt] Re: Spell checking using Google

[Hans-Jörg Bibiko]

On 04.05.2007, at 00:41, Jacob Rus wrote:

> Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote:
>> On 03.05.2007, at 21:42, Jacob Rus wrote:
>>> 1. 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