Using Google to Create a More Accurate and Easily-Extensible Spell Corrector

Spell checkers are now a common, integrated part of many commercial and freely available word processing programs. Agglutinative languages (such as Hungarian and Finnish) pose a separate problem, as there are many different " correct " forms for any given word. Due to the seemingly infinite number of possible words, the limited scope of a dictionary (provided with most spell-checking software) poses an obvious problem – if not only in terms of computability – for completeness. In this paper, we explore means of isolating and recommending corrections for misspelled words in English using the Internet as a corpus, and then discuss methods of extending these processes to another language, specifically the agglutinative Hungarian.