gSpell Spelling Resources

The SPECIALIST spelling resources include two programs GSpell a spelling suggestion tool and BagOwordsPlus a phrase retrieval tool.

GSpell uses several word similarity algorithms to suggest correct spellings for misspelled words. Unlike other spelling suggestion programs GSpell treats space as it would any other letter so that GSpell can correct errors in word compounding. GSpell also be used in word similarity tasks that do not involve misspelling.

BagOWordsPlus uses the word similarity algorithms of GSpell to perform word similarity based phrase level information retrieval.