Re: Modification of the spell checker

2005-06-09 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, I'm only vaguely familiar with the spell checker internals, but AFAIK, OOo itself is rather agnostic about the exact algorithm used to come up with similar words - that's an implementation detail of the checker engine used. For OOo, that would be aspell, for SO, one out of several comm

Re: Modification of the spell checker

2005-06-09 Thread Agustin Martin
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 11:05:31PM -0500, Jan Beeck wrote: > I found that the spell checker in the openoffice is not working corretly in > many cases. For example, when I write the word "día" (day in spanish) as dia > (í instead of i) it suggest many words except the right one. Then I decide > t

Re: Modification of the spell checker

2005-06-09 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi Jan, yesterday, you wrote: > I decide to solve this problem and I got it by using Metric Access > Methods which are suitable for similarity information retrieval. > Could you elaborate? Do you have a specific query method in mind? > Our method is quite better than the existing one proposed by

Modification of the spell checker

2005-06-08 Thread Jan Beeck
I found that the spell checker in the openoffice is not working corretly in many cases. For example, when I write the word "día" (day in spanish) as dia (í instead of i) it suggest many words except the right one. Then I decide to solve this problem and I got it by using Metric Access Methods which