A) A MUCH easier way might be to search the web for java resources on
thesaurus / spellcheckers.
There must be some off-the-shelf stuff out there for you, This is really
the wrong place for you.
B) I'll give it a blast anyways.
For a simple spell checker, Add words in to a hashtable from a dictionary
file,
then compare the file you want checked word by word using a
StringTokenizer.
If the word is not present in the dictionary it's misspelled (or you
dictionary is too small).
if(!Hashtable.containsValue(word)) {
// Code to report the error.
}
You might throw in a bit of logic to ignore words like "a, the, as, at, in "
etc...
<Possible rubbish>
A thesaurus is a tad more complicated, it might be done defining a tree
structure
of Hash ID's of the words stored in your hashtable. Hash ID's of synonym
words on the
tree represent child nodes, with the word you're checking is the parent
node. When checking a word,
do a search (bi-directional or depth first, not breadth-first as far as I
remember) on the tree
for the Hash ID of your word, and get the hash ID's of it's children.
Then user Hashtable.get(child ID) for all n children to retrieve the word
value.
Probable setup would be a hashtable containing hashtables/vectors.
Even less hassle might be a database setup.
The pain in the ass? Setting up something to determine wether something is a
synonym or not.
Get something that's already been done and license it!
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Muthukrishnan Giridhar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 3:34 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SERVLET-INTEREST] Spell Checker
Hi friends,
May be off-topic.
but, does anyone know how to implement a spell checker/thesaurus logic in
Java
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Giridhar
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