Simple Spell Checker

Can be used to suggest the correct spelling of text similar to Google “Did you mean” but based on a pure InterSystems IRIS ObjectScript implementation of Peter Norvig correct spelling suggestion algorithm.
You can read more about the approach in the original article.
It takes a given word and returns a suggestion of the probable correct spelling of the word.

The API can build a dictionary with correctly spelled words.

Prerequisites

Make sure you have git and Docker desktop installed.

Installation

Open terminal and clone/git pull the repo into any local directory as shown below:

$ git clone https://github.com/henryhamon/simple-spellchecker

Open the terminal in this directory and run:

cd irisapp
$ docker-compose build

Installation with ZPM

zpm:USER>install simple-spellchecker

How to Test

Unit Test

Open IRIS terminal:

$ docker-compose exec iris iris session iris
USER>zn "IRISAPP"
IRISAPP>Set ^UnitTestRoot = "/opt/irisapp/src/SimpleSpellchecker/UnitTests/"
IRISAPP>Do ##class(%UnitTest.Manager).RunTest("","/loadudl")

Testing POST request

POST request are used to train the model, this REST API exposes two POST requests:

To add words to dictionary
To train using a text

1. To add words to dictionary

Prepare a collection of terms, e.g. in Postman with raw data in JSON. e.g.

{"terms":["poetry","entry"]}

Adjust the authorisation if needed - it is basic for container with default login and password for IRIS Community edition container

and send the POST request to localhost:52773/simplespellchecker/train/

This will build a dictionary with correctly spelled words.

2. To train using a text

Train a dictionary from a text document, just prepare the JSON with a text, e.g.

{"text":"A very long text here."}

In Assert folder has a sample training text document, obtained from Peter Norvig site that you can use to train the language model, it is a concatenation of public domain book excerpts from Project Gutenberg.

Testing PUT request

PUT request could be used to add a single term to dictionary.
E.g. we want to add the word spelling Prepare in Postman and send the put request to:

localhost:52773/simplespellchecker/train/spelling

Testing DELETE request

Delete will completely remove a term from dictionary.
For delete request this REST API expects only the word to delete. E.g. if the spelling the following DELETE call will delete the record:

localhost:52773/simplespellchecker/train/spelling

Testing GET requests

To spell check test GET you need to train the dictionary. You can create it with POST request (see above)

This REST API exposes two GET requests:

The spell check
A Frequency of a word in the dictionary

To spell check:

localhost:52773/simplespellchecker/:word

E.g. To get the correct word for speling

localhost:52773/simplespellchecker/speling

This will return JSON data for the suggestion word, something like that:

{"suggest": "spelling"}

To check the frequency of a particular word in the dictionary, a GET request like ‘localhost:52773/simplespellchecker/train/word’ . E.g.:

localhost:52773/simplespellchecker/train/spelling

This will return JSON data with the frequency of this term in the dictionary , something like that:

{
    "frequency": 40,
    "actions": [
        {
            "title": "Remove term from Trained Model",
            "method": "DELETE",
            "href": "/simplespellchecker/train/spelling",
            "fields": []
        }
    ]
}

You can get swagger Open API 2.0 documentation on:

localhost:yourport/_spec

Author

Henry “HammZ” Hamon Pereira github

simple-spellchecker

InterSystems IRIS with REST API

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