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I've mentioned before an idea I had about getting the smartest and brightest (yeah, that means you lot) to come up with solutions to day to day issues we have that will, ultimately, save the community as a whole some time and pain. A challenge I'm facing at the moment is in correcting grammar and punctuation. Many, many, MANY times I see questions or articles that have things like "i then did" or "im not sure" or the punishable-by-death "ur mileage may vary". Even Sql instead of SQL and Asp.Net instead of ASP.NET keep popping up. Is anyone interested in a challenge to write a Javascript library that will auto-correct bad spelling and punctuation? It'll be a formal contest with prizes (and maybe even some better specs). Yay or nay: any interest?
cheers Chris Maunder
My voat iz fer a kontezt. Cuz, the codez and kommentz that ppl right should b ur choice 2 regul8, what, az owner of the boardz around hear, though im not sure. Plz consider thiz a YEZ voat, so i then did the rite thing. However, my voat's mileage may vary. ;P
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I've mentioned before an idea I had about getting the smartest and brightest (yeah, that means you lot) to come up with solutions to day to day issues we have that will, ultimately, save the community as a whole some time and pain. A challenge I'm facing at the moment is in correcting grammar and punctuation. Many, many, MANY times I see questions or articles that have things like "i then did" or "im not sure" or the punishable-by-death "ur mileage may vary". Even Sql instead of SQL and Asp.Net instead of ASP.NET keep popping up. Is anyone interested in a challenge to write a Javascript library that will auto-correct bad spelling and punctuation? It'll be a formal contest with prizes (and maybe even some better specs). Yay or nay: any interest?
cheers Chris Maunder
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That's actually a required part of the spec.
cheers Chris Maunder
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Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]
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This is a paragraph.
from http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_global_spellcheck.asp[^]
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This is a paragraph.
from http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_global_spellcheck.asp[^]
It's automatic speech correction that he's after, not spell checking. So, you'd want to correct text speech from things like ur to your.
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I've mentioned before an idea I had about getting the smartest and brightest (yeah, that means you lot) to come up with solutions to day to day issues we have that will, ultimately, save the community as a whole some time and pain. A challenge I'm facing at the moment is in correcting grammar and punctuation. Many, many, MANY times I see questions or articles that have things like "i then did" or "im not sure" or the punishable-by-death "ur mileage may vary". Even Sql instead of SQL and Asp.Net instead of ASP.NET keep popping up. Is anyone interested in a challenge to write a Javascript library that will auto-correct bad spelling and punctuation? It'll be a formal contest with prizes (and maybe even some better specs). Yay or nay: any interest?
cheers Chris Maunder
Oh, and of your phrase "yeah, that means you lot," it doesn't work. "yeah, that means the lot of you" is more accurate. Though, that may get confused with "yeah, that means allot of you," which implies not the whole "lot of us," of which my using 'the whole "lot"' might further confuse others to discern I mean "a whole lot" which, like "allot of you," doesn't mean the whole "lot of you" that "lot" is describing, which is the whole of us. So, now you (the singular "you," you being the reader, of which, when there is more than a singular "you" reader, collectively, all you readers would also be the "lot of you" readers, though not the lot of you the original "lot of you" denotes) know. :-D
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I have checked. There's stuff that's close. But not as fun as making it perfect ourselves and having an excuse to throw some prizes out... ;)
cheers Chris Maunder
Ah, so you're trying to kill a few more kittens. Carry on.
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I've mentioned before an idea I had about getting the smartest and brightest (yeah, that means you lot) to come up with solutions to day to day issues we have that will, ultimately, save the community as a whole some time and pain. A challenge I'm facing at the moment is in correcting grammar and punctuation. Many, many, MANY times I see questions or articles that have things like "i then did" or "im not sure" or the punishable-by-death "ur mileage may vary". Even Sql instead of SQL and Asp.Net instead of ASP.NET keep popping up. Is anyone interested in a challenge to write a Javascript library that will auto-correct bad spelling and punctuation? It'll be a formal contest with prizes (and maybe even some better specs). Yay or nay: any interest?
cheers Chris Maunder
It wouldn't take me an hour to write a "Reject" button that sends an e-mail saying "Clean up your language use, or it won't be published". Attempts to automate language corrections normally end up creating as many problems as they solve (e.g. how many amongst us have ever used "i" as a loop-control variable or a tag to indicate italicisation?)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It wouldn't take me an hour to write a "Reject" button that sends an e-mail saying "Clean up your language use, or it won't be published". Attempts to automate language corrections normally end up creating as many problems as they solve (e.g. how many amongst us have ever used "i" as a loop-control variable or a tag to indicate italicisation?)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
If it were easy it wouldn't be a challenge.
cheers Chris Maunder
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I've mentioned before an idea I had about getting the smartest and brightest (yeah, that means you lot) to come up with solutions to day to day issues we have that will, ultimately, save the community as a whole some time and pain. A challenge I'm facing at the moment is in correcting grammar and punctuation. Many, many, MANY times I see questions or articles that have things like "i then did" or "im not sure" or the punishable-by-death "ur mileage may vary". Even Sql instead of SQL and Asp.Net instead of ASP.NET keep popping up. Is anyone interested in a challenge to write a Javascript library that will auto-correct bad spelling and punctuation? It'll be a formal contest with prizes (and maybe even some better specs). Yay or nay: any interest?
cheers Chris Maunder
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Oh, and of your phrase "yeah, that means you lot," it doesn't work. "yeah, that means the lot of you" is more accurate. Though, that may get confused with "yeah, that means allot of you," which implies not the whole "lot of us," of which my using 'the whole "lot"' might further confuse others to discern I mean "a whole lot" which, like "allot of you," doesn't mean the whole "lot of you" that "lot" is describing, which is the whole of us. So, now you (the singular "you," you being the reader, of which, when there is more than a singular "you" reader, collectively, all you readers would also be the "lot of you" readers, though not the lot of you the original "lot of you" denotes) know. :-D
MacSpudster wrote:
Oh, and of your phrase "yeah, that means you lot," it doesn't work.
It's technically correct and perfect grammar when speaking Australian.
cheers Chris Maunder
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MacSpudster wrote:
Oh, and of your phrase "yeah, that means you lot," it doesn't work.
It's technically correct and perfect grammar when speaking Australian.
cheers Chris Maunder
My point exactly! The contest, er project specs, could include the option to qualify which language/nation the author is "typing" in. Or, perhaps, submit for 'inclusion' into a back-end repository of acceptable words and/or phrases. Then again, there would likely be hourly, nay, minutely submissions of "
Plz accept 'plz' as an acceptable word". :doh: -
I've mentioned before an idea I had about getting the smartest and brightest (yeah, that means you lot) to come up with solutions to day to day issues we have that will, ultimately, save the community as a whole some time and pain. A challenge I'm facing at the moment is in correcting grammar and punctuation. Many, many, MANY times I see questions or articles that have things like "i then did" or "im not sure" or the punishable-by-death "ur mileage may vary". Even Sql instead of SQL and Asp.Net instead of ASP.NET keep popping up. Is anyone interested in a challenge to write a Javascript library that will auto-correct bad spelling and punctuation? It'll be a formal contest with prizes (and maybe even some better specs). Yay or nay: any interest?
cheers Chris Maunder
Is it just me or is this just a semi-respectable way of getting us to do your work? ;P "Gee Huck, Gee Becky... whitewashing this fence sure is fun!"
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
It almost makes JavaScript enjoyable
How can you not love Javascript[^]?
cheers Chris Maunder
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I've mentioned before an idea I had about getting the smartest and brightest (yeah, that means you lot) to come up with solutions to day to day issues we have that will, ultimately, save the community as a whole some time and pain. A challenge I'm facing at the moment is in correcting grammar and punctuation. Many, many, MANY times I see questions or articles that have things like "i then did" or "im not sure" or the punishable-by-death "ur mileage may vary". Even Sql instead of SQL and Asp.Net instead of ASP.NET keep popping up. Is anyone interested in a challenge to write a Javascript library that will auto-correct bad spelling and punctuation? It'll be a formal contest with prizes (and maybe even some better specs). Yay or nay: any interest?
cheers Chris Maunder
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I'm not after spell-ckecking - every decent browser already has that. I've after spell fixing. But really, not even spelling: just punctuation and stuff. Light touch to make a big difference.
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
I'm not after spell-ckecking
Obviously :rolleyes:
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
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I've mentioned before an idea I had about getting the smartest and brightest (yeah, that means you lot) to come up with solutions to day to day issues we have that will, ultimately, save the community as a whole some time and pain. A challenge I'm facing at the moment is in correcting grammar and punctuation. Many, many, MANY times I see questions or articles that have things like "i then did" or "im not sure" or the punishable-by-death "ur mileage may vary". Even Sql instead of SQL and Asp.Net instead of ASP.NET keep popping up. Is anyone interested in a challenge to write a Javascript library that will auto-correct bad spelling and punctuation? It'll be a formal contest with prizes (and maybe even some better specs). Yay or nay: any interest?
cheers Chris Maunder
So "gimme code plz" will be auto-corrected to "Give me code please"? That will be an improvement :rolleyes: Seriously though, I wonder how much can really be corrected? Such a library has to be very 'smart' to fix some of the stuff I read on CP (luckily there's more good than bad though!). If someone doesn't value grammar can they form correct sentences? im sure this sentence couldve been fixed. but this sentense may it can be fixed, srry for my bad english?
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
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Is it just me or is this just a semi-respectable way of getting us to do your work? ;P "Gee Huck, Gee Becky... whitewashing this fence sure is fun!"
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
Mike Mullikin wrote:
Is it just me or is this just a semi-respectable way of getting us to do your work?
:laugh:
Jeremy Falcon
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I've mentioned before an idea I had about getting the smartest and brightest (yeah, that means you lot) to come up with solutions to day to day issues we have that will, ultimately, save the community as a whole some time and pain. A challenge I'm facing at the moment is in correcting grammar and punctuation. Many, many, MANY times I see questions or articles that have things like "i then did" or "im not sure" or the punishable-by-death "ur mileage may vary". Even Sql instead of SQL and Asp.Net instead of ASP.NET keep popping up. Is anyone interested in a challenge to write a Javascript library that will auto-correct bad spelling and punctuation? It'll be a formal contest with prizes (and maybe even some better specs). Yay or nay: any interest?
cheers Chris Maunder
I'm not going to make a full submission; but want to suggest that anyone serious about it be sure to implement this family of fixes (only one example given because I'm a slacker):
str.replace("I have got", "I've <b>GOTTEN</b>");
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