An Open Source Spell Checker Written in C# for Dot Net

NetSpell is a open source spelling checker written in C# under Dot Net environment. It uses the dictionary from OpenOffice.Org. The English version has 162,573 words. It has sophisticated Words Suggestion Algorithm and Near Miss Strategy, Phonetic Strategy. To gain the performance, the word list, or dictionary are compressed using Affix Compression.

I have already installed and did some evaluation. To see the demo, go to:

http://gate.ebizts.com/netspell

The user interface is not as slick as other commercial product, but that is something we can improve. It is pretty easy to plug into our Dot Net based Web server.

The NetSpell open source URL:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=76171