[Corpora-List] MS Spell checker, WAS: American and British English spelling converter

From: Mike Maxwell (maxwell@ldc.upenn.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 09 2006 - 21:01:38 MET

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    Merle Tenney wrote:
    > PS and Shameless Microsoft Plug: ... I am amazed at
    > the number of mistakes that the contextual speller has caught in my
    > writing since I started using it. I recommend the new version of Word
    > and Office for this feature alone.

    A question then: the old Word/Office spell checker had no concept of
    morphology, at least in English. So if I added the word "infix" to the
    dictionary, I would also have to add "infixes", "infix's", "infixing" etc.

    Does the new spell checker know any English morphology? And if so, does
    the user need to tell it whether a new word is a noun, verb etc.? Or
    does it figure this out from the context? 

    -- 
	Mike Maxwell
	maxwell@ldc.upenn.edu

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