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Re:Sheldon: The Erlang Spell Checker by nudpiedo on Thursday November 25, 2021 @09:09AM (#29341474)
The example was hilarious to read, and definitely a great feat to implement such a complex algorithm. I wonder why was Erlang picked and whether it will be offered as a service.

Also how does it know how to replace "correct" by "misspelled"? is it maybe a list of synonims with stadistic correlation based on the semantic domain?

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Re:Sheldon: The Erlang Spell Checker by vkatsuba on Saturday November 27, 2021 @06:20AM (#29359332)
Not sure about the service in the current implementation, but it could be :-).

> I wonder why was Erlang picked and whether it will be offered as a service.

You see in open source exist a lot of spell checkers based on different languages - but in Erlang this is one of the first. In Erlang world already implemented a lot of interesting projects like messengers, chats, writted a lot of documentation where spell checking is need and important. Plus we already create some useful plugin for checking strings, binaries and comments in Erlang projects based on AST - but we will outline this in more detail in the next article, which I hope will be released early next week.

> Also how does it know how to replace "correct" by "misspelled"?

This is future implementation what we will try add into this library - so far this library offers only candidates for replacement. But we are gradually moving in this direction and will be collected more algorithms for it.

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