I am interested as I am writing a spellchecker and the
data should come
from wiktionary
--- the only problem with pulling data from the wiktionary is how trustworth
is it? i spell stuff wrong all the time, and if i put an incorrect spelling
of 'sincerly' into the wiktionary the spellchecker would consider it to be
correct? I do like the idea thought, i know loads about web services and
eventually would like to write some plug-ins for other applications that can
search the wiktionary for thesarus words, definitions, translations, etc.
the other question about the spellchecker would be, should you be able to
download 'spellcheck' files so it can be run locally? this might be an option
so that smaller devices like PDA's can leverage the wiktionary and run local
look-ups?
The spellchecker could also be used in reverse, so when people mis-type words
they are searching for, the spellchecker could give you something like ' NO
RESULTS FOUND, DID YOU REALLY MEAN: ...'
-brian
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brian suda
http://suda.co.uk