[htdig] Spelling Help
I am trying to do what I can to aid those with spelling difficulties perform searches on our web pages. This was triggered by seeing in the htsearch log that attempts to find "accomodation" were finding some pages, but not the important ones (where it is spelt correctly)! Also this University has a commitment to supporting disabled students, including those with dyslexia. I would like to ask: 1)What have other sites done to address this problem? (Spell checking and correcting our own pages is not possible at present, and may never be.) 2)Can anybody recommend a _good_ (UK English) spell checker for IRXIX 6.5? (The IRIX spell command does not know a lot of important words, such as "midwifery", and I can't figure out how to addend to the dictionary.) A spell checker that could suggest words (as do the spell checkers in word processors, etc.) would be wonderful. -- David Adams Computing Services Southampton University To unsubscribe from the htdig mailing list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You will receive a message to confirm this. List archives: http://www.htdig.org/mail/menu.html FAQ:http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html
Re: [htdig] Spelling Help
At 1:34 PM + 1/18/01, David Adams wrote: 1)What have other sites done to address this problem? (Spell checking and correcting our own Use good fuzzy methods, including the synonym file. We are working on additional fuzzy matching code, but of course if anyone can come up with sample code that produces a list of suggestion words from an input, we can probably port it. 2)Can anybody recommend a _good_ (UK English) spell checker for IRXIX 6.5? Yes. Try ispell with the UK dictionaries. -- -Geoff Hutchison Williams Students Online http://wso.williams.edu/ To unsubscribe from the htdig mailing list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You will receive a message to confirm this. List archives: http://www.htdig.org/mail/menu.html FAQ:http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html
Re: [htdig] Spelling Help
According to Geoff Hutchison: At 1:34 PM + 1/18/01, David Adams wrote: 1)What have other sites done to address this problem? (Spell checking and correcting our own Use good fuzzy methods, including the synonym file. We are working on additional fuzzy matching code, but of course if anyone can come up with sample code that produces a list of suggestion words from an input, we can probably port it. 2)Can anybody recommend a _good_ (UK English) spell checker for IRXIX 6.5? Yes. Try ispell with the UK dictionaries. Back in October, Greg Holmes posted a python wrapper script for htsearch, which used ispell to suggest alternative spellings. The thread that ensued is at http://www.htdig.org/mail/2000/10/index.html#295 The ispell package is GNU software, so it should port to IRIX easily enough, I'd think, and the dictionaries are very customisable. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW:http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766 Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax:(204)789-3930 To unsubscribe from the htdig mailing list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You will receive a message to confirm this. List archives: http://www.htdig.org/mail/menu.html FAQ:http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html
Re: [htdig] Spelling Help
okay, here's one for the gurus. I'd like to be able to preserve user state, which is held in the query string. So my idea is to return just the urls from a search that match the state of the user. Basically, we have a ?lang=en or ?lang=fr, and since many of our pages are not translated yet, it's the same page regardless of the language they ask for.. So any search will return 2 pages, ( the same page, but the urls that differ in the query string ) one for english, and one for french. I would like for the search to only return one or the other, even though both should be indexed. Something like a bad_querystr attribute would help perhaps, but that is only for the indexing, not for searching, and I also need to set this unknow attribute dynamically. filtering the search's output with my own parsing could be gross. There must be a better way. any ideas? dave To unsubscribe from the htdig mailing list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You will receive a message to confirm this. List archives: http://www.htdig.org/mail/menu.html FAQ:http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html
