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I haven't had time to look at it yet, but someone at Code4Lib conference proposed a more sophisticated approach to spell checking that sounded really interesting to me, and said he was going to share the code. I hope to have time to investigate at some point. Let's see if I can find it on the conference page.... yeah, it was Martin Haye. You can watch his presentation here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4028600349627496246&hl=en Looks like he's *martin*.*haye*[at]gmail.com. During the lightning talk, he said he didn't want to distribute the code seperately but wanted to include it in Lucene if possible---but later in the conference, he said he had been convinced by the interest in it to distriburte the code as it's own standalone thing, and planned to do that presently. If anyone does or has explored using martin's code, please let us know about your experience. Jonathan Kevin Kierans wrote: > Has anyone created their own "dictionaries" > for aspell? We've created blank delimited > lists of words from our opac. One for title, > one for subjects, and one for authors. (We're thinking > of a series one as well) > > We would like to use > one of these word lists to offer suggestions > depending on which search the patron is making. > We're assuming we can make better suggestions > if the words come from our actual opac. > > We've got it working with the dictionary that > comes with aspell, but having problems (we can't do it!) > substituting our own "dictionaries." > > Does anyone have any experience/knowledge/hints/pointers > they can share with us? > > We are using linux, php 5, aspell 0.50.5, and > php -> pspell functions. > > Thanks, > Kevin > TNRD Library System, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada > > -- Jonathan Rochkind Sr. Programmer/Analyst The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu