[Web4lib] Logging spelling errors

[Richard Wiggins]

There are lists of common misspellings out there, so you could build your
list of top N search terms, put into Access, and do a database join with the
list of misspelled words.

We do include common misspellings in our Best Bets database at Michigan
State.  My favorite one is:

   libary

/rich


On 2/6/06, K.G. Schneider <kgs at bluehighways.com> wrote:
>
> As part of a larger project evaluating search engines, we plan to evaluate
> the SEs using common spelling errors entered by users on our site.
>
> Our informal plan is to use the top query reports we're ginning up, and
> skim
> these reports for spelling errors. But we're using aspell as our
> spell-checker and wondered if anyone had come up with a way to log
> spell-check errors in a way that allowed you to produce reports limited to
> misspelled terms (which could of course then be sorted by frequency,
> assuming people are predictable in some of their misspellings). I can
> think
> of all kinds of refinements and variations on that, but basically a list
> of
> common misspellings is what we need.
>
> N.b. yup, I'm familiar with and follow the aspell list, and yup, web4lib
> and
> lita-l are still where I want to ask this question.
>
> Karen G. Schneider
> kgs at bluehighways.com
>
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