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Article #6801Re: (LONG) Writing a spelling checker -- advice wanted
From: Timo Salmi LASK
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1990 04:04
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1990 04:04
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In article <1606@acorn.co.uk> gtoal@ed.ac.uk writes: > >This is a *LONG* posting, about the design of a spelling checker I have been >working on. If you are a writer/maintainer of these beasties please try >to read this as I would appreciate your collective advice. If you are Ok, I am a writer of one of the "beasties" for MsDos. Should you be interested, tspell21.arc is available by anonymous ftp from chyde.uwasa.fi, Vaasa, Finland. No source code. ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3) School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun Thu 25-Jan-1990 22:50:10 Searching Archive: TSPELL21.ARC - Checks English Spelling, T.Salmi Filename Comment Date Time CRC -------- -------------------------------- ---- ---- --- AUXIL.DNY Seed (read the instructions) 08-11-88 10:09:54 49D5 SPELLED.DNY English dictionary 08-20-88 22:39:54 3B26 SPELLED.EXE Dictionary editor 09-16-89 21:14:28 CDD5 SPELLER.EXE Spelling checker (start here) 09-16-89 09:00:12 1A8E SPELMERG.EXE Fast merging of dictionaries 09-16-89 21:34:48 9562 TSPELL.INF Document 09-16-89 22:00:00 16C4 TSPROG.INF List of PD programs from T.Salmi 08-30-89 15:44:34 3618 VAASA.INF Info: Finland, Vaasa, U of Vaasa 06-23-89 08:30:20 88AB WORDLIST.EXE Counts frequencies of words 09-16-89 08:54:30 6FF5 ---- ------ ------ ----- 0009 247479 149443 40%
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!tut!ra!uwasa.fi!ts From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: (LONG) Writing a spelling checker -- advice wanted Keywords: spell, spelling, checking, correction, soundex, fuzzy matching Message-ID: <1990Feb6.040432.2837@uwasa.fi> Date: 6 Feb 90 04:04:32 GMT References: <1606@acorn.co.uk> Organization: University of Vaasa Lines: 29