Hello all, my name's Camden Daily, and I'm new to the list. I was wondering if the wikia project has any plans to create a 'Did you mean' type of spell checker, and if so, an API to make use of it.<br><br>
I have spent a couple of years now trying to find a commercial, high volume spell checker like the ones provided by the (now defunct) Google SOAP API, or Microsoft or Yahoo's limited, non commercial APIs. I have an application that provides this spell checking ability to library web catalogs, and they require good recommendations for proper nouns like book titles and names of authors.
<br><br>If no one is currently working on this, I'd like to help out a bit. I've been working on the side trying to use the n-gram spell checker built into the Lucene project with a dictionary built from the XML for
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org">en.wikipedia.org</a> (minus the talk). I'm hoping that it can provide me with a reasonable alternative for my specific project, but I would be interested in any other work in this area.
<br><br>Thanks,<br>Camden Daily<br><a href="http://www.jaunter.com">www.jaunter.com</a><br>