Re: Need a dictionary of words in English
Re: Need a dictionary of words in English
- Subject: Re: Need a dictionary of words in English
- From: Wade Tregaskis <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:59:42 +1100
I'm writing an application that basically does Tegic-like match of
words in English, the only problem is, I don't have access to a
comprehensive list of English words. NSSpellChecker doesn't seem to
offer the facilities I need. Any help would be appreciated.
There's always the "dictionaries" in /usr/share/dict/. Under MacOS X
however, unfortunately, they're a bit incomplete - at least compared to
Red Hat Linux. You really have to combine them all to get something
approaching a complete dictionary, but still missing plurals and so
forth.
Nonetheless, it may be sufficient for your needs. For reference, you
can read every dictionary in that directory into NSString's in
NSArray's in under 2 seconds (on an 800mhz G3 iBook), so performance is
not an issue.
Wade Tregaskis
-- Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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