On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 00:48:01 +0300 "Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hspell's current correction algorithm is very simplistic: it tries > to correct problematic Hebrew spelling mistakes - not typos (which > anybody can correct on their own). Those mistakes include writing > and extra vav or yud or missing one, replacing chet with chaf and > all the similar mistakes, and so on. It also assumes only one > mistake per word when correcting, so don't expect it to find a word > that is off by two letters. Is there an "soundex" algorithm for hebrew? If there is than we can precompute soundex values for all dictionary words and store them in some sorted data structure (say, a dbm file). Than we can present all words with same soundex. -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." --Robert Wilensky, University of California ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
