Re: spelling corrections

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
To: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: spelling corrections
Date: 2003-03-10 18:52:28
Message-ID: 20030310185228.GA5032@dcc.uchile.cl
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On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 01:11:25PM -0500, Neil Conway wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 12:34, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Cool. How much manual review did you have to do on the tool's output?
>
> A fair bit, but not so much that it wasn't worth doing, IMHO. Some of
> that work won't need to be done again (e.g. adding PostgreSQL-specific
> words to the stop list), but some of it is inevitable (e.g. the use of
> function names in comments -- there are so many of these that adding
> them all to the stop list would likely be pointless).

And if you extract function names from the output of ctags or something
along those lines?

But then one doesn't know how efficient is the algorithm with so big a
stop list...

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"La vida es para el que se aventura"

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