Check Spelling for Question Equivalence Rules

Answer Server can check the spelling of the rules you submit to the TestRule action. When you configure this, a corrected rule might be returned in the spellchecked_rule element of the response. This correction is not used by the Answer Bank system (Answer Server always uses the rule that you supply), but if appropriate you can resend the action with the corrected rule.

To check spelling you must have an IDOL Content component that contains a large amount of indexed documents. With a sufficiently large amount of data spelling errors can be identified.

To check spelling

  1. Open your configuration file in a text editor.
  2. Create a new section in the configuration file and configure a spelling checker. You can give the section any name. Set the following parameters:

    Type The type of component to use to check spelling. Set this parameter to Content.
    Host The host name or IP address of the machine hosting the IDOL Content component.
    ACIPort The ACI port of the IDOL Content component.
    LanguageType The value to use for the LanguageType parameter, in Query actions sent to the IDOL Content component.

    For example:

    [MySpellingChecker]
    Type=Content
    Host=localhost
    ACIPort=12345
    LanguageType=englishUTF8

    For more information about these configuration parameters, refer to the Answer Server Reference.

  3. Find the configuration section for the Answer Bank system. In this section, set the configuration parameter SpellcheckEngine to the name of the section that you created in the previous step. For example:

    [MyAnswerBankSystem]
    SpellcheckEngine=MySpellingChecker
  4. Restart Answer Server for your configuration changes to take effect.