How to write a spelling corrector (2016)

Post by SamBam » Wed, Apr 25, 2018, 1:57 PM UTC

chmike wrote: post #15

What I would like to know is why the spelling correction suggestion of Apple iOS are so bad. Why can they get along with this ? I used to disable it. It can't even make a suggestion when there is only one missing character.

Post by rplnt » Wed, Apr 25, 2018, 2:04 PM UTC

madacoo wrote: post #38

lb1lf wrote: post #32

I know a spelling corrector is not the same thing as a spelling checker, but this is too good an opportunity to pass to promote Martha Snow's hilarious poem 'Spell Chequer': Eye halve a spelling chequer It came with my pea sea It plainly marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a quay and type a word And weight four it two say Weather eye am wrong oar write It shows me strait a weigh. As soon as…

Thanks for sharing this. I found it difficult to parse the initial couple of lines because I was constantly attempting to read by attaching meaning to the spellings: "Eye halve" is a bit frightening in that sense. But then I realised I can read the text as sounds and almost ignore the spellings. Listening to what the sounds made in my head allowed for a much faster pace of comprehension because I didn't have to keep…

    It plainly marques four my revue

Post by mikepurvis » Wed, Apr 25, 2018, 2:07 PM UTC

rplnt wrote: post #43

madacoo wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for sharing this. I found it difficult to parse the initial couple of lines because I was constantly attempting to read by attaching meaning to the spellings: "Eye halve" is a bit frightening in that sense. But then I realised I can read the text as sounds and almost ignore the spellings. Listening to what the sounds made in my head allowed for a much faster pace of comprehension because I didn't have to keep…

One part I can't "translate" is this: It plainly marques four my revue

Post by dmurray » Wed, Apr 25, 2018, 2:14 PM UTC

cdancette wrote: post #34

falsedan wrote: post #31

The unit tests worry me: assert len(WORDS) == 32192 assert sum(WORDS.values()) == 1115504 assert WORDS.most_common(10) == [ ('the', 79808), ('of', 40024), ('and', 38311), ('to', 28765), ('in', 22020), ('a', 21124), ('that', 12512), ('he', 12401), ('was', 11410), ('it', 10681)] assert WORDS['the'] == 79808 Those aren't testing the file open, or Counter, or read, but instead are tightly-coupling the tests to the exact…

This code is not written for production, it's just written to make you understand how the basic of this technology works. So I would say the unit tests have the exact same purpose: make the reader understand what the functions are doing (and not a real unit testing). Since you speak of value, the value Peter Norvig is trying to provide is making readers understand the principles, he's not trying to provide some monet…

Post by adamsea » Wed, Apr 25, 2018, 2:35 PM UTC

madacoo wrote: post #38

lb1lf wrote: post #32

I know a spelling corrector is not the same thing as a spelling checker, but this is too good an opportunity to pass to promote Martha Snow's hilarious poem 'Spell Chequer': Eye halve a spelling chequer It came with my pea sea It plainly marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a quay and type a word And weight four it two say Weather eye am wrong oar write It shows me strait a weigh. As soon as…

Thanks for sharing this. I found it difficult to parse the initial couple of lines because I was constantly attempting to read by attaching meaning to the spellings: "Eye halve" is a bit frightening in that sense. But then I realised I can read the text as sounds and almost ignore the spellings. Listening to what the sounds made in my head allowed for a much faster pace of comprehension because I didn't have to keep…