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Sometimes I'll type soesn't instead of doesn't, or jnowledge instead of knowledge. It happens.
A spell-checker which eliminated standard qwerty keyboard letter-adjacent flubs would be good.
When you look at the letters surrounding the letter 'D' on a keyboard and flub the word 'doesn't' none
of the adjacent letters make sense.
soesn't
woesn't, (dibs on coining that one though)
eoesn't
roesn't
foesn't
coesn't
xoesn't
You'd think that these mistakes would auto-correct.
Sorry if this already exists.
Autocorrect Aware Keyboard Layout
Depends on the fact that modern spell checkers /do/ correct this sort of error [ytk, Aug 27 2013]
[link]
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This already exists in every spellcheck application. Quite basic to the concept, in fact. |
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The examples given will auto-correct on my iOS device (except for "coesn't"). |
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Well mine soesn't. It just underscores the word, but that gives me an idea... |
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There are a few different ways of measuring the
"distance" between one word, and another - common ones
include the Hamming distance which is probably the
most
basic, and the Levenshtein Distance takes it a stage
further. I don't know what the name is of the thing
you're talking about, which might be like a weighted
Levenshtein, where edits are weighted according to the
physical keyboard-distance between keys, but there are
people out there in google-land who are talking about
exactly this. |
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I'm interested in somehow codifying any string into a
single numeric (or if that's not feasable, perhaps a
geometric coordinate tuple) that provides an absolute
measure, when compared against another value of the
similarity or distance of one word to another. Say it
was in 3 dimensions, then "cat" might be at location
(x,y,z : 135.11, 34.12, 890.94), and "orangutan" at
(x,y,z : 11.12, 104.55, 860.76) with a distance of
145.7557 between
them - it's unlikely that someone writing one of those
words, actually meant the other. |
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Initially, this might be based on a Levenshtein kind
of metric, perhaps augmented by keyboard difference
(though you'd need to factor in the various
differences between international keyboards) but
later, bring synonyms into play, and ultimately to
start using alternative language definitions as well. |
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Before you know it - you've got a geometric semantic
map of the whole of language that could be used for
spell-correction, search-engine optimisation and
translation - I rather suspect that there are various
implementations of such a geometric semantic space
floating out there looking at the interwarbs as we
speak. |
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Spell checkers nowadays will correct for this sort of
error. The iPhone and OS X both have this sort of
correction built in, and I can only presume that other
systems have it as well. Those systems fail though
when the mistyped word is also a real word. The
linked idea is my proposal to solve this problem. |
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