pspell

[The Little Guy]

using pspell, is it possible to get words that would be best in the current phrase?

 

For example take this phrase: who is the fastest pwrson in the world?

 

The word person was misspelled as the person typed a "w" by accident and didn't notice.

 

pspell returns the word "prison" as the best result. When typed into Google, Google new that you meant the word "person", so how do you get pspell to be more accurate according to words around the misspelled word?

[Buddski]

Perhaps something like this might help you out a little bit..

 

http://au2.php.net/manual/en/function.levenshtein.php

[rajivgonsalves]

this is actually grammer you can check the full statement, like in the example who and prison won't go together it will be which is the fastest prison however this is difficult to do you have alot to do

[The Little Guy]

Perhaps something like this might help you out a little bit..

 

http://au2.php.net/manual/en/function.levenshtein.php

I am not sure how that would help, could you explain?

 

this is actually grammer you can check the full statement, like in the example who and prison won't go together it will be which is the fastest prison however this is difficult to do you have alot to do

do you have any suggestions for grammar? I wouldn't know where to start...

[The Eagle]

<?php
// input misspelled word
$input = 'carrrot';

// array of words to check against
$words  = array('apple','pineapple','banana','orange',
                'radish','carrot','pea','bean','potato');

// no shortest distance found, yet
$shortest = -1;

// loop through words to find the closest
foreach ($words as $word) {

    // calculate the distance between the input word,
    // and the current word
    $lev = levenshtein($input, $word);

    // check for an exact match
    if ($lev == 0) {

        // closest word is this one (exact match)
        $closest = $word;
        $shortest = 0;

        // break out of the loop; we've found an exact match
        break;
    }

    // if this distance is less than the next found shortest
    // distance, OR if a next shortest word has not yet been found
    if ($lev <= $shortest || $shortest < 0) {
        // set the closest match, and shortest distance
        $closest  = $word;
        $shortest = $lev;
    }
}

echo "Input word: $input\n";
if ($shortest == 0) {
    echo "Exact match found: $closest\n";
} else {
    echo "Did you mean: $closest?\n";
}

?> 

 

This is what you need to start with, using levenshtein will help you do what you want to do.

 

Example:

 

Users inputs: bathrom

Output: No exact matches found.

Did you mean: $closest (in this case would be bathroom.)

[Buddski]

the problem with levenshtein is that you need a list of words to compare the input word with...

[The Little Guy]

I'm fairly sure that levenshtein wont help me in what I am trying to accomplish...

 

I think that I need grammar software to do what I want...

[mikesta707]

Yeah, what you are talking about is finding the best word when compared to the context its in. I don't believe pspell takes the context into account. Similarly Levenshtein only considers the one word you have, and not what the context is. Besides, all Levenshtein would do is give you the difference between one word and another, and has no bearing on definition or whatever