Re: [aspell-devel] Mis-spellings database?

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Mike C. Fletcher wrote:

> I'm wondering if anyone knows of a decent mis-spellings database 
> anywhere?  That is, a mapping from mis-spelling to correct spelling (or 
> vice-versa)?  I'm currently using a 550-item set adapted from:
>     http://www.actwin.com/rwmack/spelling.htm
> and it's fine for testing, but I'm looking for something that might have 
> a few tens of thousands of entries.  Basically, I want to build a 
> "common error tracking" system into my spell-checker, and would like a 
> corpus of (real-world (English)) data so that I can judge the 
> effectiveness of the new feature when built.

The best I can offer you is a small set I used for testing Aspell.  It 
contains a lot of my own misspellings plus a few others from other sources.  
It has a lot of the more difficult misspellings that many spell checkers 
are unable to get.  You can find it at http://aspell.net/test/.

If you do find such a list I will certainly be interested in it also.

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