RE: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS)

2004-01-05 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
> -Original Message- > From: Fred [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 5:36 PM > To: Chris Santerre; Dallas L. Engelken; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS) > >

Re: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS)

2003-12-31 Thread Rob Poe
however, if you look for a word to start with BS, and someone emails a "check out this bs" then...you could have problems... Adam Schneider wrote: On 12/31/03, Casper Gasper wrote: Things like, '4 consonants in a row are not an English word'. Shortstop? Matchstick? :) Seriously, thoug

RE: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS)

2003-12-31 Thread Gary Funck
Building on Adam's perl script, this rendition will print the words it sees which begin with rare tuples. my (@rare_tuples) = qw/bb bc bd bf bg bh bj bk bm bn bp bq bs bt bv bw bx bz cb cc cd cf cg cj ck cm cn cp cq cs ct cv cw cx db dc dd df dg dj dk dl dm dn dp dq ds dt dv dx dz eh ez fb fc fd

RE: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS)

2003-12-31 Thread Adam Schneider
On 12/31/03, Jonas Eckerman wrote: > >On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:04:45 -0600, Adam Schneider wrote: > >> DUBIOUS WORD BEGINNINGS: > >One problem with this is of course acronyms and names (lots of english writing people >have non english names, and names of products (especially software) often include

RE: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS)

2003-12-31 Thread Jonas Eckerman
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:04:45 -0600, Adam Schneider wrote: > DUBIOUS WORD BEGINNINGS: One problem with this is of course acronyms and names (lots of english writing people have non english names, and names of products (especially software) often includes acronym). "WMWare" for example would ha

RE: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS)

2003-12-31 Thread Adam Schneider
On 12/31/03, Chris Santerre wrote: > >Don't go crazy! Wait a little longer. A LOT of work has already been done. >Soon. Very soon ;) I didn't go crazy; it really did just take a few minutes. Using the word list from an anagram-generating program, here's what I came up with. Maybe someone will f

RE: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS)

2003-12-31 Thread Chris Santerre
ent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 12:31 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS) > > > > > On 12/31/03, Casper Gasper wrote: > > > >Things like, '4 consonants in a row are not an English word'. > >

RE: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS)

2003-12-31 Thread Roger Merchberger
Rumor has it that Jennifer Wheeler may have mentioned these words: > On 12/31/03, Casper Gasper wrote: > > > >Things like, '4 consonants in a row are not an English word'. > > Shortstop? Matchstick? :) > > Seriously, though, looking for patterns is an interesting idea. For > instance, English si

RE: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS)

2003-12-31 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
> -Original Message- > From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 12:06 PM > To: Dallas L. Engelken > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS) > > > On Wed, Dec 3

Re: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS)

2003-12-31 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 12:02:50PM -0600, Dallas L. Engelken wrote: > spell checking hurts obfu because splitting a correctly spelled word > with a word boundary will cause 2 or more mis spelled words... > > Subject: looking for xa/nax, > > looking: ok > for: ok > xa: not found > nax: not found

RE: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS)

2003-12-31 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
> -Original Message- > From: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 10:13 AM > To: 'Fred'; Dallas L. Engelken; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS) > > > LO

RE: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS)

2003-12-31 Thread Jennifer Wheeler
> On 12/31/03, Casper Gasper wrote: > > > >Things like, '4 consonants in a row are not an English word'. > > Shortstop? Matchstick? :) > > Seriously, though, looking for patterns is an interesting idea. For > instance, English simply does not allow you to begin a word with "vt" or > "bs". Loo

Re: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS)

2003-12-31 Thread Adam Schneider
On 12/31/03, Casper Gasper wrote: > >Things like, '4 consonants in a row are not an English word'. Shortstop? Matchstick? :) Seriously, though, looking for patterns is an interesting idea. For instance, English simply does not allow you to begin a word with "vt" or "bs". Looking for word

Re: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS)

2003-12-31 Thread Casper Gasper
I'm just talking off the top of my head here, but rather than running words through a spell checker can't you make a linguistic analysis by say, measuring the position of vowels in the word? I'm not sure exactly how you'd measure that, but I'm prepared to bet that some linguist has done resear

RE: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS)

2003-12-31 Thread Chris Santerre
. --Chris > -Original Message- > From: Fred [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 6:36 PM > To: Chris Santerre; 'Dallas L. Engelken'; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject He

Re: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS)

2003-12-30 Thread Fred
Chris Santerre wrote: > WOW!!! Nice work!! > > Thanks for sharing the results!! We can put that whole spellcheck > thing to rest now ;) > > --Chris I won't let this die yet, I have a few ideas to play with, and more when I get more time to look at some ham subjects which could cause these results

Re: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS)

2003-12-30 Thread Fred
CTED] >> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS) >> >> >> WOW!!! Nice work!! >> > > thank you > >> How did it handle things not found in the dictionary? Like >> LFHDJFHFJ$*? I didn&#x

RE: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS)

2003-12-30 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
> -Original Message- > From: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 3:42 PM > To: Dallas L. Engelken; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS) > > > WOW!!

RE: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS)

2003-12-30 Thread Chris Santerre
spellcheck thing to rest now ;) --Chris > -Original Message- > From: Dallas L. Engelken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 2:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS) &g

[SAtalk] Spell Checking the Subject Header (RESULTS)

2003-12-30 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
i've seen alot of junk lately that is severly mis-spelled in the subject... Subject: cheeap sooftware avaailable ! lpvapvcijv Subject: Dallase would you pllease just listten to me So... i hacked up an eval test to call pspell on the subject line of each message here are the results running