com.aliasi.spell
Interface SpellChecker

All Known Implementing Classes:

CompiledSpellChecker

public interface SpellChecker

The SpellChecker interface specifies a single method for first-best spelling correction.

Since:

LingPipe2.0

Version:

2.0

Author:

Bob Carpenter

Method Summary

String

didYouMean(String receivedMsg) Returns a first-best hypothesis of the intended message given the received message.

Method Detail

didYouMean

String didYouMean(String receivedMsg)

Returns a first-best hypothesis of the intended message given the received message. The returned result will be null if the received message itself is the best hypothesis.

Parameters:

receivedMsg - Input string to correct.

Returns:

The first-best hypotheses of what was meant.