Spelling Corrector

Spelling Corrector using the frequence of use of words in a dataset of books.

Four languages are currently supported:

• French (default)
• English
• Spanish
• German

It’s also possible to use the corrector with custom sources and alphabets for other languages.

Data used

• fr :
  • CARPENTIER Nicolas-Joseph, Dictionnaire du bon language - link
  • Voltaire, Candide - link
• en :
  • SHAKESPEARE William, All’s Well That Ends Well - link
  • SHAKESPEARE William, Hamlet - link
• es :
  • DE CERVANTES Miguel, Don Quijote - link
  • BAROJA Pío, Los Contrastes de la Vida - link
• de :
  • KANT Immanuel, Kritik der reinen Vernunft - link
  • NIETZSCHE Friedrich, Ecce homo, Wie man wird, was man ist - link

Examples of use

# French correction
c = Corrector()
c.correct('orthografe')
>> orthographe
# English correction
c = Corrector(lang='en')
c.correct('mroinng')
>> morning

References

Spelling corrector based on that of Peter Norvig