Martin has created a Google Group for his spell checker, and
discussions have been ongoing since c4lcon about how to contribute it
to Lucene.   You can learn more about it here:

        <http://groups.google.com/group/spelt>

Martin has packaged the code with tests for folks to try it out easily.

        Erik


On Apr 3, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>
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> Jonathan Rochkind
> Sr. Programmer/Analyst
> The Sheridan Libraries
> Johns Hopkins University
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