| Type: | Package |
| Title: | Correct the Spelling of a Given Word in the English Language |
| Version: | 0.1.2 |
| Author: | Selva Prabhakaran |
| Maintainer: | Selva Prabhakaran <selva86@gmail.com> |
| Description: | Corrects the spelling of a given word in English using a modification of Peter Norvig's spell correct algorithm (see http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html) which handles up to three edits. The algorithm tries to find the spelling with maximum probability of intended correction out of all possible candidate corrections from the original word. |
| License: | GPL-2 | GPL-3 |
| Encoding: | UTF-8 |
| LazyData: | true |
| Imports: | data.table, dplyr, stringr |
| RoxygenNote: | 5.0.1 |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Packaged: | 2016-10-27 13:30:41 UTC; selvaprabhakaran |
| Depends: | R (≥ 2.10) |
| Repository: | CRAN |
| Date/Publication: | 2016-10-28 10:04:43 |
correct
Description
Correct the spelling of a given word in the english language.
Usage
correct(wd = NULL, maxedit = 2, dictionary = NULL)
Arguments
wd |
Character. The word to be spell corrected. |
maxedit |
Integer. The maximum number of edits allowed to reach the correct word. Max allowed is 3. |
dictionary |
Character Vector of eligible words to be considered. Repeated words will get more weightage. |
Details
This is based on Peter Norvig's spell correct algorithm http://norvig.com/spell.py. But this one is modified to handle upto three edits.
Value
The corrected word.
Author(s)
Selva Prabhakaran selva86@gmail.com
Examples
data(dict)
correct("scaret")
correct("beliebe")
dict
Description
A dataset containing the valid english dictionary words originally obtained from a work of Jane Austen.
Usage
data(dict)
Format
A data frame with 245462 rows and 2 columns
Details
. The actual word
N The number of occurences of the word in the document.