Bing's API is very nice. Among many fun services, it includes a JSON
"Did You Mean" service:
http://www.bing.com/developers
We've a large Solr index (8M+ docs) of multi-language MARC records
that makes using Solr's internal SpellCheckComponent less than ideal.
Solr would assume too many poor spellings were correctly spelled.
Bing wins for our use case.
Cheers,
- Eric
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Eric Larson
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UW Digital Collections Center
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On Apr 30, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Cory Lown wrote:
> I'm exploring options for implementing a spelling suggestion or
> basic query reformulation service in our home grown search
> application (searches library website, catalog, summon, and a few
> other bins). Right now, my thought is to provide results for
> whatever was searched for 'as is' and generate a link for an
> alternate search -- sort of like what The Google does. I am
> concerned only with correcting spelling errors, not so much with
> topically related search suggestions.
>
> The 3 options I've found that seem worth further investigation are:
>
> - Yahoo Search spellingSuggestion service: http://developer.yahoo.com/search/web/V1/spellingSuggestion.html
>
> - GNU Aspell: http://aspell.net
>
> - Ockham Spell service: http://spell.ockham.org/about/index.html .
> There is a thread on Code4Lib back in 2005 about this: http://serials.infomotions.com/code4lib/sru/?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.1&stylesheet=/code4lib/sru/style.xsl&query=spelling+server
>
> Anyone doing something like this? What tools are you using? What
> have you tried? What worked well? Have I overlooked an option that I
> should consider?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cory
>
>
> Cory Lown
> NCSU Libraries
> Raleigh, NC
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