On 4/25/07, Amit Khemka <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 4/24/07, Ethan Bradford <address@hidden> wrote:
> > It doesn't do this out of the box, but if you implement patch 1489981, it
> > will.
> >
>
> Thanks :-), let me get a look !
>
> cheers,
Hi, finally I got the patch working with python bindings !
Very good!
I have another query: Given a word and its possible suggestions how
can I decide that anything with less than score 50, is a good
replacement candidate ! Or say if the score of the first suggestion is
200 rather than picking that as a possible alternative i rather ignore
it.
May be knowing the way these scores are calculated would help, or else
i guess i will have to use some heuristics.
Empirically, just from looking at several lists of spelling suggestions, I came up with a cut off of 130.
The biggest advantage I got from the score was in knowing when the top suggestions had the same score, and thus could be reorganized based on other criteria (I have a rough estimate of frequency from another source). When the scores are different, I almost always use their ranking. The fudge factor I put in to allow frequency to override this is to raise the ratio of the scores to the 20th power and compare that to the ratios of the frequencies.
cheers,
amit.
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