[Xapian-discuss] Spelling correction in Omega

[Olly Betts]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 04:20:44PM -0500, Yevgeny Binder wrote:
> I'm trying to add spelling correction to Omega (1.0.7) by defining a  
> $suggestion OmegaScript keyword with the following patch, but  
> Xapian::QueryParser::get_corrected_query_string() always returns an  
> empty string. I'm using a database with tens of thousands of  
> documents, each with hundreds of words, so I would expect that a  
> misspelling like "comptuer" should readily be corrected to "computer,"  
> but it's not. I've tried numerous misspelled queries but none of them  
> yield a correction string, so I suspect I'm doing something wrong.  

You also need to add the spelling targets to the database at index time.

It would be nice if Omega supported this - probably just by default, as
I suspect the overhead is fairly small.  So if you get it working,
please submit a patch.

Cheers,
    Olly