Re: A spell corrector for apropos

[Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Matthew Mondor 
<mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 22:05:23 +0530
> Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
>> This is a cool idea. But I think, this might be quite slow in some
>> cases, as there can be more than one misspelled keywords in the query
>> and each of them might have 3-4 or more suggestions at edit distance 1
>> (edit distance 2 is out of question, it can be very slow). I am
>> skeptical but I guess this is worth experimenting and seeing the
>> results. :)
>
> Just as a reminder, nothing needs to be completely hard coded, as long
> as the system defaults are sane.

Of course, nothing is hard coded, that would take away all the fun :)

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Abhinav