A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering

• KeenSpell

  1 1 10.0 Java

  Discontinued Java 8+ zero-dependency port of SymSpell: 1 million times faster through Symmetric Delete spelling correction algorithm

In some ways, I think computational linguistics (for English) has missed a mark. We have dictionaries, lexicons, grammar engines, spell checkers, pluralization rules, and quotation disambiguation. You'd think we could roll all these into a unified, standard definition format.

My KeenWrite editor, for instance, uses:

* https://github.com/DaveJarvis/KeenSpell (spell check, lexicon)

* https://github.com/DaveJarvis/KeenQuotes (curls straight quotes)

* https://github.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/blob/main/R/pluraliz... (pluralization)

I was looking at integrating LanguageTool[0] for grammar and realized that it has partial functionality for KeenQuotes (lexing and tokenization), duplicates the SymSpell algorithm used by KeenSpell, and because it offers grammar corrections it likely can pluralize words, as well.

Unifying those for English alone would be a massive undertaking.

[0]: https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool

• KeenQuotes

  3 4 0.0 Java

  Discontinued Convert straight quotes to curly quotes

In some ways, I think computational linguistics (for English) has missed a mark. We have dictionaries, lexicons, grammar engines, spell checkers, pluralization rules, and quotation disambiguation. You'd think we could roll all these into a unified, standard definition format.

My KeenWrite editor, for instance, uses:

* https://github.com/DaveJarvis/KeenSpell (spell check, lexicon)

* https://github.com/DaveJarvis/KeenQuotes (curls straight quotes)

* https://github.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/blob/main/R/pluraliz... (pluralization)

I was looking at integrating LanguageTool[0] for grammar and realized that it has partial functionality for KeenQuotes (lexing and tokenization), duplicates the SymSpell algorithm used by KeenSpell, and because it offers grammar corrections it likely can pluralize words, as well.

Unifying those for English alone would be a massive undertaking.

[0]: https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool

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• KeenWrite

  98 621 0.0 Java

  Discontinued Free, open-source, cross-platform desktop Markdown text editor with live preview, string interpolation, and math.

In some ways, I think computational linguistics (for English) has missed a mark. We have dictionaries, lexicons, grammar engines, spell checkers, pluralization rules, and quotation disambiguation. You'd think we could roll all these into a unified, standard definition format.

My KeenWrite editor, for instance, uses:

* https://github.com/DaveJarvis/KeenSpell (spell check, lexicon)

* https://github.com/DaveJarvis/KeenQuotes (curls straight quotes)

* https://github.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/blob/main/R/pluraliz... (pluralization)

I was looking at integrating LanguageTool[0] for grammar and realized that it has partial functionality for KeenQuotes (lexing and tokenization), duplicates the SymSpell algorithm used by KeenSpell, and because it offers grammar corrections it likely can pluralize words, as well.

Unifying those for English alone would be a massive undertaking.

[0]: https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool

• languagetool

  310 11,543 10.0 Java

  Style and Grammar Checker for 25+ Languages

  

In some ways, I think computational linguistics (for English) has missed a mark. We have dictionaries, lexicons, grammar engines, spell checkers, pluralization rules, and quotation disambiguation. You'd think we could roll all these into a unified, standard definition format.

My KeenWrite editor, for instance, uses:

* https://github.com/DaveJarvis/KeenSpell (spell check, lexicon)

* https://github.com/DaveJarvis/KeenQuotes (curls straight quotes)

* https://github.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/blob/main/R/pluraliz... (pluralization)

I was looking at integrating LanguageTool[0] for grammar and realized that it has partial functionality for KeenQuotes (lexing and tokenization), duplicates the SymSpell algorithm used by KeenSpell, and because it offers grammar corrections it likely can pluralize words, as well.

Unifying those for English alone would be a massive undertaking.

[0]: https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool

• shitty-autoreply

  1 0 10.0 Python

  Irritate people by getting their names wrong

Reminds me of a dumb project I did that takes a person's name and returns a name that is close, but not quite right: https://github.com/rzimmerman/shitty-autoreply

The idea was to set up an auto-reply to my email that looked automated, but surely couldn't be because it messed up the sender's name. Not nearly as clever as Peter Norvig's program and even less useful.

I'd say the bias toward common American names is a bug, but given that the goal of the project is to be obnoxious it's probably a feature.

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