Many thanks to those of you who've tested the code from yesterday! Those of you outside of the UK might want to see if this version works slightly faster for you: hippie_spellcheck_v0.02.txt The next thing I'll be looking at is how to optimise the spellchecker dictionary for each library. Some of you will already have [...]
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HIPpie "Did you mean?" ready for testing (again!)
A thousand apologies to those of you who've been waiting for HIPpie to reach the testing phase — has it really been 6 months since I last posted anything?! HIPpie was/is a project that I'll be doing in my spare time and, unfortunately, since Christmas, my spare time has been taken up with everything but [...]
Spellchecker + Network Effect = Better Spellchecker?
I've been having a few email discussions relating to whether or not it's best to use a standard dictionary of words for an OPAC spellchecker or an index created from the actual holdings of that library… Standard dictionary pros: correct spelling cons: suggestion might not find any results, might not contain buzz/new words Custom dictionary [...]
HIPpie "Did you mean?" ready for testing
I've just finished plugging the first bit of HIPpie into our test OPAC: I'm gonna be out of the office for most of next week (3 days in London at Online Information 2007), but I'll start contacting those of you who said you'd like to be involved with the testing. The test code just requires [...]
HIPpie update (20/Nov/2007)
Just a quick update — I've not had too much spare time to work on HIPpie since announcing it, partly due to work and conference commitments, but I have been slowly beavering away. The first chunk is some of the back-end code for the "did you mean" spell checker. To try and make the code [...]
(Hopefully) coming soon — HIPpie
In the last couple of months, I've had several email exchanges with Dynix & Horizon libraries who were interested in using some of the "2.0" features that I've added to our OPAC at Huddersfield, but the technical challenges (setting up an extra web server, MySQL database, etc) would have been too much. I've been thinking [...]