Spellcheck Problem

[Srikanth]

Hi,

We need to check the spelling of a word which is actually a Domain
name. For example we have to check the word " onlinetradeing ". When
checked with the spell checkers we are getting the words which are
unrelated such as on, obliterating, incinerating, intruding etc. But
exactly what we want was " online trading ".

So we would like to have the word to be split into phrases and check
the spelling too. The normal spell checkers are just checking the words
in the dictionary but not splitting the word into phrases.

I observed that in the Google Spellcheck its suggesting like this.
Anyone will know the idea behind the code used for this?????. I
searched lot of sites and forums for this purpose but no one gave
reasonable idea....I suppose you people may solve my big problem......

Regards
L.Srikanth.

[cda...@gmail.com]

I'm not certain of the exact methodology that the spellchecker uses,
but I believe that it does some sort of comparison of the entire term
to similar terms on the internet. So, it looks at "onlinetradeing" and
sees that the term is not very often used. However, it can somehow
tell that the term "online trading", which is only two characters off,
is used very heavily.

The Google spellchecker probably doesn't have any concept of words, or
phrases, or what constitutes proper spelling. It can, however,
determine if two strings are very similar, and if one is used far more
heavily.

For example, the search term "untied stats" will display a spelling
suggestion of "united states", even though both words in the original
search are valid. Google knows, however, that the second term is very
similar, and used far more frequently, so it suggests that.

I hope that is of some help.