[jira] [Created] (TEXT-78) Investigate adding a spell checker

["Bruno P. Kinoshita (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Bruno P. Kinoshita created TEXT-78:
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             Summary: Investigate adding a spell checker
                 Key: TEXT-78
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TEXT-78
             Project: Commons Text
          Issue Type: New Feature
            Reporter: Bruno P. Kinoshita
            Priority: Minor


There are already spell checkers such as [Hunspell|http://hunspell.github.io/] (which has its own API to define suffixes and prefix), and simpler spell checkers like [jazzy (forked)|https://github.com/reckart/jazzy].

Hunspell (GPL/mixed) is written in C++, and Java programs that use it normally use native access through [BridJ|https://github.com/thomas-joiner/HunspellBridJ]/[JNA|https://github.com/dren-dk/HunspellJNA]. Jazzy (LGPL) is good, but not actively maintained, and simply looks up words from a dictionary.

We can provide a simple interface, and perhaps one or two different spell checkers in pure Java.

Having edit distances already in the project, we could investigate something such as adding a [BK-Tree|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BK-tree], an in-memory look-up spell checker, etc.

When creating the initial interfaces & design, it will be important to remember that we want to support multiple languages too.



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