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[Solr Wiki] Trivial Update of "SpellCheckComponent" by MichaelLudwig

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The following page has been changed by MichaelLudwig:
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SpellCheckComponent

The comment on the change is:
"query suggest" might have been a more appropriate name for this feature

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  = Introduction =
  
- The SpellCheckComponent is designed to provide inline spell checking of queries without having to issue separate requests. For discussion of the development of this feature, see [https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-572 SOLR-572].
+ The SpellCheckComponent is designed to provide inline spell checking of queries without having to issue separate requests. Another and possibly clearer way of stating this is that it makes query suggestions (as do well-known web search engines), for example if it thinks the input query might have been misspelled. (Some people tend to think that "spellchecker" is actually a misnomer, and something along the lines of "query suggest" would have been more appropriate.)
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+ For discussion of the development of this feature, see [https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-572 SOLR-572].
  
  The SpellCheckComponent can use the [http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-lucene/SpellChecker Lucene SpellChecker] to give suggestion for given words, or one can implement their own spell checker using the SolrSpellChecker abstract base class.