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 >> >> > > -- > Jonathan Rochkind > Sr. Programmer/Analyst > The Sheridan Libraries > Johns Hopkins University > 410.516.8886 > rochkind (at) jhu.edu