Spell checkers

Question posted by: mskh (Newbie) on March 1st, 2008 01:43 PM

Hello everyone,

Guys i need to know what are the constraints in designing a spell-checker program? for example Word processor ignores acronyms and does not check them. Could anyone think of more contraints that should be considered when designing a spell-checker?

Regards
M

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RedSon

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March 1st, 2008
03:45 PM
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Re: Spell checkers

Ignore proper nouns, ignore CamelCaseWords, ignore words with numbers in them, ignore words-that-are-hyphenated.

Stuff like that. You can think of dozens of constraints if you sat down and examined it.

mskh

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March 10th, 2008
07:38 PM
#3

Re: Spell checkers

Quote:

Originally Posted by RedSon

Could you please help me more with the constraints, I could not find many of them. I'd really appreciate it your help.

Regards
M

RedSon

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March 10th, 2008
09:38 PM
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Re: Spell checkers

Quote:

Originally Posted by mskh

Could you please help me more with the constraints, I could not find many of them. I'd really appreciate it your help.

Regards
M

You don't have to find them...just think of them.

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