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Yeah, exactly! - this is why building the perfect spell checker is still a challenging and interesting engineering problem, in 2020. The nature of misspelling v
by lacker 6y ago
Yeah, exactly! - this is why building the perfect spell checker is still a challenging and interesting engineering problem, in 2020. The nature of misspelling varies from language to language, especially with non-letter-based languages like CJK, or with input methods that lead to different sorts of typos than a regular keyboard.
Out of curiosity, what is your native language, Dutch? Can you give an example of something that Google’s spell checker screws up?
- berkes 6y agoI'm Dutch, and here are some funny things suggested wrong by spellcheckers: * hoofdaannemer - hoofd aannemer : main contracter - person who takes heads * wegomlegging - weg om legging : road closure, a road around a legging(pants) * dagverse vis - dag verse vis : catch of the day - goodbye, fresh fish This twitter has many such errors in the wild. https://mobile.twitter.com/spatiegebruik https://mobile.twitter.com/spatiegebruik Not all spellcheckers suggest it wrong, but almost all that rely on statistics, will get it wrong: hoofdaannemer (or hoofdanything), will occur far less than hoofd or aannemer. This, I fear, is forming our language use. As people rely on tech, they'll follow the suggestions and wrong use of space will turn an actual problem. Edit: formatting.
- kiwijamo 6y agoGerman is another one that seems to match the description.