Spellchecker

Yet another spellchecker written in go.

• Features
• Installation
• Usage
• Benchmarks

Features:

• very small database: approximately 1mb for 30,000 unique words
• average time to fix one word ~35μs
• about 70-74% accuracy in Peter Norvig's test sets (see benchmarks)

Installation

$ go get -v github.com/f1monkey/spellchecker

Usage

func main() {
	// Create new instance
	sc, err := spellchecker.New(spellchecker.Alphabet{
		Letters: "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890",
		Length:  36,
	})
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	// Read data from any io.Reader
	in, err := os.Open("data/sample.txt")
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	sc.AddFrom(in)

	// Add some more words
	sc.Add("lock", "stock", "and", "two", "smoking", "barrels")

	// Check if a word is correct
	result := sc.IsCorrect("coffee")
	fmt.Println(result) // true

	// Fix one word
	fixed, err := sc.Fix("awepon")
	if err != nil && !errors.Is(err, spellchecker.ErrUnknownWord) {
		panic(err)
	}
	fmt.Println(fixed) // weapon

	// Find max=10 suggestions for a word
	matches, err := sc.Suggest("rang", 10)
	if err != nil && !errors.Is(err, spellchecker.ErrUnknownWord) {
		panic(err)
	}
	fmt.Println(matches) // [range, orange]

	// Save data to any io.Writer
	out, err := os.Create("data/out.bin")
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	sc.Save(out)

	// Load saved data from io.Reader
	in, err = os.Open("data/out.bin")
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	sc, err = spellchecker.Load(in)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
}

Benchmarks

Tests are based on data from Peter Norvig's article about spelling correction

Test set 1:

Running tool: /usr/local/go/bin/go test -benchmem -run=^$ -bench ^Benchmark_Norvig1$ github.com/f1monkey/spellchecker

goos: linux
goarch: amd64
pkg: github.com/f1monkey/spellchecker
cpu: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-8950HK CPU @ 2.90GHz
Benchmark_Norvig1-12    	     100	  10721930 ns/op	        74.07 success_percent	       200.0 success_words	       270.0 total_words	 1085913 B/op	    2063 allocs/op
PASS
ok  	github.com/f1monkey/spellchecker	1.910s

Test set 2:

Running tool: /usr/local/go/bin/go test -benchmem -run=^$ -bench ^Benchmark_Norvig2$ github.com/f1monkey/spellchecker

goos: linux
goarch: amd64
pkg: github.com/f1monkey/spellchecker
cpu: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-8950HK CPU @ 2.90GHz
Benchmark_Norvig2-12    	      72	  13977916 ns/op	        70.00 success_percent	       280.0 success_words	       400.0 total_words	 1573316 B/op	    3050 allocs/op
PASS
ok  	github.com/f1monkey/spellchecker	1.874s