[TEXT-78] Investigate adding a spell checker

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Labels: help-wanted spellcheck spellchecker spelling text
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Bruno P. Kinoshita
• Created: 16/Apr/17 11:16
• Updated: 19/Apr/17 16:08
• Resolved: 16/Apr/17 21:25

Description

There are already spell checkers such as Hunspell (which has its own API to define suffixes and prefix), and simpler spell checkers like jazzy (forked).

Hunspell (GPL/mixed) is written in C++, and Java programs that use it normally use native access through BridJ/[JNA|https://github.com/dren-dk/HunspellJNA]. Jazzy (LGPL) is good, but not actively maintained, and simply looks up words from a dictionary.

We can provide a simple interface, and perhaps one or two different spell checkers in pure Java.

Having edit distances already in the project, we could investigate something such as adding a BK-Tree, an in-memory look-up spell checker, etc.

When creating the initial interfaces & design, it will be important to remember that we want to support multiple languages too.