SPELL is a spellchecking library for Common Lisp.
It is made available under the BSD license.
Loading the spell system may initially take up to between, say, 3
and 60 seconds (depending on the machine and CL implementation) as
an English dictionary is loaded and compiled into the resulting FASL
file.
For loading the spell system, use
(ql:quickload "spell")Currently the only exported functions are spell:english-lookup
that accepts a string, and spell:english-check-paragraph that
checks a whole paragraph of text and returns a list of conses. Each
cons represents a single word in the paragraph which has failed
dictionary lookup, with the car and cdr being offsets in the
original string outlining the word.
(spell:english-lookup "horse")(#<EXPLICIT-BASE-VERB #1="horse" person:ANY number:ANY tense:NIL negative:NIL contraction:NIL strength:WEAK infinitive:SELF {1001089AA3}>
#<EXPLICIT-BASE-NOUN #1# number:SINGULAR case:NIL gender:NIL {1001089A73}>)
(spell:english-check-paragraph "In Polish, a horse is koń, and in German, it's
das Pferd.")((22 . 25) (47 . 50) (51 . 56))
The SPELL library provides the spell/simple ASDF system. The
difference between the full and the simple version used to be that
the simple version answered only “does this word occur in the
English dictionary?” with a boolean value, while the full version
returns a list of all word meanings associated with that
string. However, this difference no longer exists and the
spell/simple system is now an alias for the spell system.
The spell/simple system can still be loaded with
(ql:quickload "spell/simple")