Re: "Universal spell-check" algorithm and function morphemes
Re: "Universal spell-check" algorithm and function morphemes
- Subject: Re: "Universal spell-check" algorithm and function morphemes
- From: Toby Sargeant <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:53:20 +1100
On Thursday, Jan 30, 2003, at 14:56 Australia/Melbourne, Jim Witte
wrote:
I notice that in a paper if I write 'hyperglobalist' and
'hyperglobalization' I have to tell the system to learn both of them.
The same thing happens with words like 'blog' and 'blogging'. Does
anyone know (can they hint, or can they suggest to those who would be
able to do something about it) if there are plans to extend the
spell-check algorithm to deal with such functional morphological
differences? In English, I don't think this would be too hard (at
least not a system that would recognize 80% of all morphological
variants that it should) because English function morphemes are often
at the end of words. Although in other languages it could be *quite*
a bit more difficult, especially languages like Hungarian that have
infixes for almost everything (subject pronoun, object pronoun,
preposition, diminutive, etc)..
For english at least, look at the ispell/aspell source
(
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/)
Both of these programs contain stemming code for english words.
Toby.
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