Bruno P. Kinoshita created TEXT-78:
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Summary: Investigate adding a spell checker
Key: TEXT-78
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TEXT-78
Project: Commons Text
Issue Type: New Feature
Reporter: Bruno P. Kinoshita
Priority: Minor
There are already spell checkers such as [Hunspell|http://hunspell.github.io/]
(which has its own API to define suffixes and prefix), and simpler spell
checkers like [jazzy (forked)|https://github.com/reckart/jazzy].
Hunspell (GPL/mixed) is written in C++, and Java programs that use it normally
use native access through
[BridJ|https://github.com/thomas-joiner/HunspellBridJ]/[JNA|https://github.com/dren-dk/HunspellJNA].
Jazzy (LGPL) is good, but not actively maintained, and simply looks up words
from a dictionary.
We can provide a simple interface, and perhaps one or two different spell
checkers in pure Java.
Having edit distances already in the project, we could investigate something
such as adding a [BK-Tree|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BK-tree], an in-memory
look-up spell checker, etc.
When creating the initial interfaces & design, it will be important to remember
that we want to support multiple languages too.
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