Re: Spellcheck a list
Re: Spellcheck a list
- Subject: Re: Spellcheck a list
- From: Skinner Paul <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 23:30:34 -0400
On Oct 3, 2004, at 5:41 PM, Jean-Baptiste LE STANG wrote:
Have you tried XSpell osax which is based on Apple's own spell
checking system. Here is a sample of what you can have with it :
This is definitely permanently installed OMM. Exactly what I was
looking for when I started!
While testing alternatives I fell in love with WordNet! It's is the
best example of comprehensively correlating words into a relational
organization that I have ever seen. It's amazing. I already have a
project planned with this at it's core.
So, while I'll use xSpell regularly, I am going to get WordNet
installed in command line mode. Somehow. [makefile mod tips thankfully
accepted] I appreciate the tips for the built in dictionaries, but they
can't stand up to WN.
If you have a free half-hour I highly recommend DLing WordNetX
<http://wordnet.sourceforge.net/>, entering a word, click on a synonym,
a hyponym or a hypernym and repeat. Fun! If you like that sort of
thing. : )
check spelling in text "ketchup cetchup, catsup, tomato kechup, tomato
catsup, condiment, condiments, cechup, tomato cetchup" language
british english
-- {{found word:"cetchup", starting at:9, ending at:15,
guesses:{"ketchup", "catchup"}}, {found word:"kechup", starting at:33,
ending at:38, guesses:{"ketchup"}}, {found word:"cechup", starting
at:79, ending at:84, guesses:{"cutup"}}, {found word:"cetchup",
starting at:94, ending at:100, guesses:{"ketchup", "catchup"}}}
XSpell is a free osax, supporting multiple language and checking a
complete text.
<http://www.lestang.org/osax/XSpell/>
++ JB
Le 3 oct. 04, à 23:22, Skinner Paul a écrit :
On Oct 3, 2004, at 5:07 PM, Skinner Paul wrote:
I'd like to spellcheck a list of items and separate the misspelled
to a new list. Any suggestions? To add to the mix, I need to sort
pairs of words where one is invalid to the misspelled list as well.
Data sample
ketchup<TAB> cetchup, catsup, tomato kechup, tomato catsup,
condiment, condiments, cechup, tomato cetchup <return>
Code isn't really the problem here, I'm looking for a database,
either built-in or not that I can use. I'd wanted to interface with
resources.dictionary.com and use their data, as in the future I'd
love to get synonym and definition data. Unfortunately, their Terms
of use says no commercial use. So, I searched google and found
Wordnet <http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/> which seems to be the
solution. Mind-opening. Unfortunately it's 1006 (Couldn't complete
the last command because the application or extension is not
scriptable. Result Code = 1006).
I should clarify that WordNetX <http://wordnet.sourceforge.net/> is
the unscriptable app. While a good OS X implementation, it doesn't
have a scripting implementation.
The WordNet Unix release is provided as a binary installation for
# the following platforms:
#
# SPARCstation running Solaris 7
# Silicon Graphics Mips processor running Irix 6.8.3
# PC running Redhat Linux
Bummer! Anyone know how to install the command line UNIX app? Does
it need to be ported? I'm not wanting to go there.
And please, don't 'GUI script it' me. I need to talk directly to
the database, not push buttons on a remote control with a plastic
finger on a stick. Not that I'm not glad to have the
stickfingerremotecontrol. : )
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