Re:Sheldon: The Erlang Spell Checker
by vkatsuba on Saturday November 27, 2021 @06:20AM
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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.
> 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.