[aspell-devel] Mis-spellings database?

[Mike C. Fletcher]

I'm wondering if anyone knows of a decent mis-spellings database 
anywhere?  That is, a mapping from mis-spelling to correct spelling (or 
vice-versa)?  I'm currently using a 550-item set adapted from:
   http://www.actwin.com/rwmack/spelling.htm
and it's fine for testing, but I'm looking for something that might have 
a few tens of thousands of entries.  Basically, I want to build a 
"common error tracking" system into my spell-checker, and would like a 
corpus of (real-world (English)) data so that I can judge the 
effectiveness of the new feature when built.

BTW, for those following along at home, I've got the phonetic searching 
working quite nicely (.1 to .6s/search on average using Metakit), and it 
finds the correct words in the above test-set most of the time.  There 
are a number of examples that resist phonetic comparison quite strongly, 
which accounts for a few of the errors. (Basically high-level rules 
mistakenly compress features so that similarly-spelled sub-strings wind 
up with entirely different phonetic encodings.)  My latest optimisation 
of the distance > 1 searches (reversed-word-indexing) also means that a 
few entries where errors occur both in the beginning and the end of the 
word aren't caught.  All-in-all, about 20 or so of the errors don't get 
their intended word as a suggestion.

Anyway, have fun all,
Mike

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 Mike C. Fletcher
 Designer, VR Plumber, Coder
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