Re: Raster's typing - was Re: gtkstep info

[raster redhat com]

On 19 Sep, Nat Friedman shouted:
->  On Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 03:37:09PM -0400, Kurt Granroth wrote:
->  > So this is NOT a spell-checker?  Would it catch 'hte', 'htough', and the
->  > like?
->  
->  Yes, it would catch those, but it isn't a spell-checker in the
->  traditional sense; that is, it doesn't just spawn ispell -a and
->  replace your word with the first match.  Instead, it permutes the word
->  with a bunch of typo-specific permutations and then scores the
->  resulting words against a lexicon of <word, frequency> pairs.  It is
->  also (optionally) grammar-savvy, and can therefore correct typos like
->  "Get the from form John." and "It is to loud in here."
->  
->  An explanation is probably in order, so I'll write up a description of
->  the algorithms this afternoon and forward it to the list.

just commit it and let us all fix my topes.. :) 

->  -Nat
->  
->  

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