[Web4lib] three services from the Ockham Network

[Lars Aronsson]

Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> Ockham Spell Web Service
> Given a word and an optional dictionary, this REST-like Web 
> Service will return alternative spellings of the word in an XML 
> stream. This XML stream is intended to be incorporated into 
> search engines to suggest alternative queries a la Google's Did 
> You Mean? service. [...]
>   http://spell.ockham.org/about/

This is probably very cool, even though some of the alternate 
spellings seem pretty wild.  XML should of course be Unicode 
(UTF-8), but here the result is HTTP declared as ISO 8859-1.

Are the dictionaries or the source code behind this function 
available for download?  Public domain? Licensed?  I see an 
immediate application by adding a Swedish dictionary that adds 
antiquated word forms and inflexions to a broadened search.
So how can I help in that?


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
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