Re: context sensitive spell checking

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Rolf Sabsch wrote:

> I'm currently writing on my Master thesis on context - sensitive spell
> checking. This topic covers one point of your to-do list, "Rank suggestions
> based on frequency information. Both global frequency and document specific
> frequency can be used. The latter will require that the whole document be
> made available to the spell checker. Also use frequency information to flag
> words which are found in the dictionary but not in common usage, and thus
> might not be what was intended.
>
> But I have to use cooccurence information, which I extract out of larger
> text corpora. Well I think this should work much better, than just frequency
> information.

You lost me.

> So I wonder, if anyone already done something on this point or got some good
> ideas about it.

No.  There is some stubs for adding frequency information into Aspell 
dictionaries but that's about all.  At this point it is just an idea.