Re: [Aspell-user] probabilities

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Lars Aronsson wrote:

> 
> When I misstyped "oc" in Swedish, the suggestions given were:
> ock, Og, ok, OCR, och, AC, DC, PC, WC, oj, om, or, os, pc
> 
> For any Swedish speaker, the obvious alternative is "och", which means
> "and", probably the most frequent word in the language, but Aspell
> presented four other words as more likely.
> 
> Shouldn't probability or frequency be weighed in when Aspell
> determines which correct word is most likely?

I have considered doing that for a long time.  It would defiantly help.  I 
have also considered doing so on a per document basis.  I just never got 
around to doing so.
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