▲ ▼ Spell checkers to have parity with the human eye
unfortautenyl
I know what this is meant to say, and you do too. Now AI is no human brain, but I feel we can close the gap on this with better spell checkers. What is hampering various spell checking tools to know what this trying to say? Isn't the stem of 'unfort' enough to check the database and realize that there is only one word that fits it?
How about this?
https://i.imgur.com/g0BzQ2q.png
Sapling - https://sapling.ai - has created a neural-net based grammar checker that doesn't generate any suggestions based on rules or if-statements. It's backed by millions of real English sentences. The result is a spell checker that behaves a little more like a human. No guarantees on correcting everything all the time, but with people writing and more data it's getting better every day. We've found it generates very few false positives and more suggestions than other spelling and grammar checkers.
Traditional spell checkers will look up spelling based on algorithms that look for edit-distance, or perhaps from a database of common misspellings. If you make too many character perturbations, or if the example isn't in the lookup table, there will not be a match.
Disclosure: I'm part of the team at Sapling Intelligence. I'd love for you to check it out and play with it, in whatever contrived setting you want, but also just let it be your background personal copy-editor for emails. Let me know what you think!
Great work showing how your product addresses this problem with same sample provided by the OP.
Let me know if you have specific issues in mind. People have a lot of different privacy concerns so I can list a couple below:
On-device vs. off device is an unavoidable tradeoff. Sapling, very early on, decided to build the best possible AI writing assistant. With current technology and compute limits, it meant hosting the brains in the cloud. Similar objections have been raised about cloud-based AI voice assistants (Google, Siri, Alexa), but I think for a lot of consumers the most important thing is product experience.
We sell software, not user data. We have strict cyber security policies such as server hosting in a VPC, encryption for all data at rest and in motion, and MFA access. Enterprise customers have access to options such as on-premise solutions, automatic PII removal and no data at rest options (losing benefits of a system that improves over time).
> The result is a spell checker that behaves a little more like a human.
I mean that's pretty much this entire needgap addressed! That is really cool, I just downloaded the chrome extension to replace grammarly. I like the maroonish color theme too. Thank you for sharing this. Good work to the team and you.
So Google is doing better than the two above. GBoard could correct the word. Perhaps we just need everyone to collaborate and come up with one solution, but the tech industry isn't anywhere near collaborating with all the competition currently
From the days of 'Autocorrect memes' to this, no wonder even Apple enabled third party keyboard support for iOS!
Spell check and prediction game needs to improve on desktop OS's.
Virtual keyboards on Linux have predictions/word completions - http://t-sato.in.coocan.jp/xvkbd/#completion.