Mahout - Overview. Spelling Checker using Lucene. My initial interest in spell checking algorithms started when I had to fix some bugs in the spell checking code at work over a year ago.
We use Jazzy, a Java implementation of GNU Aspell, as our spell checking library. Jazzy uses a combination of Metaphone and Levenshtein distance (aka Edit distance) to match a misspelled word to a set of words in its dictionary. CCNMTL: Spellcheck. Introduction | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Safari Introduction When editing text within a web browser, it is helpful to have a way to check the spelling of the text you are editing.
This is especially helpful when posting to a Discussion, for example, without the help of a word processor such as Microsoft Word. This guide includes techniques for adding and using spell check capabilities within your web browser (specifically Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari) that will assist you with spell checking your post to CourseWorks.