Spelling Checking Programs: Free Spelling Checking Programs, Spell Checker, Gnu Aspell, Hunspell, Myspell, Yoficator, Enchant, Ispell, Pspell

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Free Spelling Checking Programs, Spell Checker, Gnu Aspell, Hunspell, Myspell, Yoficator, Enchant, Ispell, Pspell, Spelling Suggestion. Excerpt: In computing, a spell checker (or spell check) is an application program that flags words in a document that may not be spelled correctly. Spell checkers may be stand-alone capable of operating on a block of text, or as part of a larger application, such as a word processor, email client, electronic dictionary, or search engine. Simple spell checkers operate on individual words by comparing each of them against the contents of a dictionary, possibly performing stemming on the word. If the word is not found it is considered to be an error, and an attempt may be made to suggest a word that was likely to have been intended. One such suggestion algorithm is to list those words in the dictionary having a small Levenshtein distance from the original word. When a word which is not within the dictionary is encountered most spell checkers provide an option to add that word to a list of known exceptions that should not be flagged.wi A spell checker customarily consists of two parts: The scanning routines sometimes include language-dependent algorithms for handling morphology. Even for a lightly inflected language like English, word extraction routines will need to handle such phenomena as contractions and possessives. It is unclear whether morphological analysis provides a significant benefit. The word list might contain just a list of words, or it might also contain additional information, such as hyphenation points or lexical and grammatical attributes. As an adjunct to these two components, the program's user interface will allow users to approve replacements and modify the program's operation. One excepti... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=605869

34 pages, Paperback

First published June 11, 2010