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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>
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Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] Lojban spellchecker class (PHP/javascript)
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 12:50:31 -0500
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On Saturday, March 01, 2014 01:58:01 bl3.drkwv@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello. Is there any spellchecker class which I could integrate into web
> forum/chat propram code to check if person who is pretending to talk on
> lojban, doing it correctly? It probably would be used primarily for
> learning lojban. Maybe there is some C/C++ code which I could port onto
> javascript? Thank you.

What kinds of errors are you trying to catch? 

Suppose you type "ci" instead of "cu". A grammar checker will probably catch 
that; a spell checker will not.

Suppose you type "pavyskojymavra". This is a well-formed, but meaningless, 
lujvo. A lujvo checker would reject it because neither "skoj*" nor "mavra" is 
defined. A spell checker with access to the dictionary could notice that it is 
a known word with a letter inserted.

Suppose you type "bendicfuncyxra". A spell checker with access to the 
dictionary could notice that it differs by one letter from a known word.

Suppose you type "cantydicfuncyxra" instead of "cantydicfancyxra". (I found 
out that there is such a thing by reading Wikipedia while entering 
"risnydicfancyxra" and "bendicfancyxra".) As both are well-formed words, but 
neither is in the dictionary, a spell checker can't tell whether it's a typo 
or a newly coined word.

Pierre
-- 
sei do'anai mi'a djuno puze'e noroi nalselganse srera

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