Bing's API is very nice. Among many fun services, it includes a JSON
"Did You Mean" service:
http://www.bing.com/developers
We've a large Solr index (8M+ docs) of multi-language MARC records
that makes using Solr's internal SpellCheckComponent less than ideal.
Solr would assume too many poor spellings were correctly spelled.
Bing wins for our use case.
Cheers,
- Eric
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Eric Larson
Digital Library Consultant
UW Digital Collections Center
[email protected]
On Apr 30, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Cory Lown wrote:
I'm exploring options for implementing a spelling suggestion or
basic query reformulation service in our home grown search
application (searches library website, catalog, summon, and a few
other bins). Right now, my thought is to provide results for
whatever was searched for 'as is' and generate a link for an
alternate search -- sort of like what The Google does. I am
concerned only with correcting spelling errors, not so much with
topically related search suggestions.
The 3 options I've found that seem worth further investigation are:
- Yahoo Search spellingSuggestion service:
http://developer.yahoo.com/search/web/V1/spellingSuggestion.html
- GNU Aspell: http://aspell.net
- Ockham Spell service: http://spell.ockham.org/about/index.html .
There is a thread on Code4Lib back in 2005 about this: http://serials.infomotions.com/code4lib/sru/?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.1&stylesheet=/code4lib/sru/style.xsl&query=spelling+server
Anyone doing something like this? What tools are you using? What
have you tried? What worked well? Have I overlooked an option that I
should consider?
Thanks,
Cory
Cory Lown
NCSU Libraries
Raleigh, NC
[email protected]
