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  • Spell correct in python

    Posted on June 13th, 2009 Dhaneel No comments

    I was in need of getting a spell checker for words. I found really a good one at
    Here. . Here is the code

    import re, collections

    def words(text): return re.findall('[a-z]+', text.lower())

    def train(features):
    model = collections.defaultdict(lambda: 1)
    for f in features:
    model[f] += 1
    return model

    NWORDS = train(words(file('big.txt').read()))

    alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'

    def edits1(word):
    s = [(word[:i], word[i:]) for i in range(len(word) + 1)]
    deletes = [a + b[1:] for a, b in s if b]
    transposes = [a + b[1] + b[0] + b[2:] for a, b in s if len(b)>1]
    replaces = [a + c + b[1:] for a, b in s for c in alphabet if b]
    inserts = [a + c + b for a, b in s for c in alphabet]
    return set(deletes + transposes + replaces + inserts)

    def known_edits2(word):
    return set(e2 for e1 in edits1(word) for e2 in edits1(e1) if e2 in NWORDS)

    def known(words): return set(w for w in words if w in NWORDS)

    def correct(word):
    candidates = known([word]) or known(edits1(word)) or known_edits2(word) or [word]
    return max(candidates, key=NWORDS.get)

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