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Re: A spell corrector for apropos



On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 22:05:23 +0530
Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> This is a cool idea. But I think, this might be quite slow in some
> cases, as there can be more than one misspelled keywords in the query
> and each of them might have 3-4 or more suggestions at edit distance 1
> (edit distance 2 is out of question, it can be very slow). I am
> skeptical but I guess this is worth experimenting and seeing the
> results. :)

Just as a reminder, nothing needs to be completely hard coded, as long
as the system defaults are sane.

Thanks,
-- 
Matt


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