On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Mike C. Fletcher wrote: > Sorry if I caused offense by using your code w/out notifying you.
Not really. I just like to know how Aspell is being used thats all. > I > didn't really think you'd be interested in a project that's so early in > it's life-cycle (I only just set up the SourceForge project in the last > hour). I cancelled a message I wrote to you Saturday night because I > figured you'd be too busy to be answering questions from the likes of me > before I have anything that's actually working :) . I would generally be willing to answer questions provided you make your intentions clear. If you said > As for compiling Aspell on Win32, I hadn't tried the MingWin32 version > of GCC. I had noticed the post about the VC++ compilation patch, but > your comment on it seemed to suggest that it would require quite a bit > of work to be acceptable. Given that I have no great C/C++ skill, it is > easier for me to build the infrastructure in Python and only use C/C++ > for a few key algorithms than it is to try and modify a complex C/C++ > project. Thats fine. However as Aspell improves your module won't unless you keep up with Aspell developments ;) > Too bad about using the *.rws files directly, but in considering it, I'm > leaning toward giving (GUI) tools to both dictionary creators and users > for generating redistributable files for both dictionaries and > word-sets. If Aspell is installed you CAN dump the words lists to stdout using "aspell dump master <dict>". > From the sound of it, it should be easy to allow users to > generate distributables for either system. If they have aspell > installed we'll offer the word-list-(de)compress functionality, > otherwise I'll only accept/generate uncompressed lists. > > I am somewhat at a loss for how you access the "compressed" files. I'd > thought they were using a b-tree or similar index, but it doesn't seem > that way when I look at the code for word-list-compress. Are you > loading the whole word-set into memory? You misunderstand. word-list-compress simply compresses and decompresses a sorted word list to save space. It is not used in any way by Aspell itself. > I'll have to look at the typo-weighting code, as I'm not sure where to > hook it into the leditdistance algorithm. leditdistance != typo edit distance. leditdistance uses a different algo. than the normal edit distance algorithm. The normal edit distance algorithm "editdist.cpp" and the typo edit distance algorithm "typo_editdist.cpp" are basically the same except for the weights. > It would seem that you'd need > each "swap" to be a lookup into the typo table. Yes that is correct. But it is not a "swap" but a replacement. A swap is when the adjective letters are interchanged, "teh" vs. "the". --- http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
