pythainlp.spell¶

The pythainlp.spell finds the closest correctly spelled word to the given text.

Modules¶

pythainlp.spell.correct(word: str, engine: str = 'pn') → str [source]¶

Parameters

word (str) – word to correct spelling
engine (str) –
- pn - Peter Norvig’s algorithm (default)

Returns

the corrected word

pythainlp.spell.spell(word: str, engine: str = 'pn') → List[str][source]¶

Parameters

word (str) – word to check spelling
engine (str) –
- pn - Peter Norvig’s algorithm (default)

Returns

list of words

class pythainlp.spell.NorvigSpellChecker(custom_dict: Optional[List[Tuple[str, int]]] = None, min_freq: int = 2, min_len: int = 2, max_len: int = 40, dict_filter: Callable[[str], bool] = <function _is_thai_and_not_num>)[source]¶

correct(word: str) → str [source]¶

Return the most possible word, using the probability from the spelling dictionary

Parameters: word (str) – A word to correct its spelling

dictionary() → List[Tuple[str, int]][source]¶: Return the spelling dictionary currently used by this spell checker

freq(word: str) → int [source]¶

Return frequency of an input word, according to the spelling dictionary

Parameters: word (str) – A word to check its frequency

known(words: List[str]) → List[str][source]¶

Return a list of given words that found in the spelling dictionary

Parameters: words (str) – A list of words to check if they are in the spelling dictionary

prob(word: str) → float [source]¶

Return probability of an input word, according to the spelling dictionary

Parameters: word (str) – A word to check its probability of occurrence

spell(word: str) → List[str][source]¶

Return a list of possible words, according to edit distance of 1 and 2, sorted by frequency of word occurrance in the spelling dictionary

Parameters: word (str) – A word to check its spelling

pythainlp.spell.DEFAULT_SPELL_CHECKER = Default instance of standard NorvigSpellChecker, using word list from Thai National Corpus¶