On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:31:03 +0200 "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > interesting you mention this. i actually thought of using aspell as the > > core of a probability and correction matching engine, but as such it's api > > isn't sufficient to use it. > > That was my idea/hope too... > > so anyway- aspell would have been great - it'd offload the matching to a > > library designed for this kind of stuff, but alas, it's api is not > > sufficient, so i need to do a custom one. :( > > I agree with your ':('... :P > BTW maybe the aspell data (dictionaries) could be used, isn't it? I hope > it will be possible to have some compatibility with it since it's the > most used correction tool on open systems, and this would allow to use > the many resources that are already available for it without creating > them (again) from scratch. i'd love to - but i need to do this fast. no moretime to look. what i need from aspell api-wise is a: "do any words start with "age" for example (not just does this match anything in the dictionary). in fact that is all i need - start with... :) right now it's probably faster/easier for me to just take /usr/share/dict/words and turn that into a binary file i can mmap and quickly search (or build an index file into the words file for lookups). we can look at aspell later. this would be a worthy api to add to aspell. -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community