Function word_probability(word) returns 0.0

[barrust]

Function word_probability(word) returns 0.0

[barrust]

So part of this is a confusion of what the word_probability is for and what it means. The word probability is the ratio of the word compared to the corpus. It allows for us to choose which of two words that are both possible answers should be selected. Generally you will never need to use that function unless you wanted to inspect a words value. You are likely getting 0.0 since those words are not in the result set. That could be a bug that should be resolved (likely throw an exception).

As for your other questions:

1. Yes, selecting a distance of 1 would not solve that problem as diet is likely more common in the corpus.
2. The text file can be of any form. It could be sentences, just words, anything. It just has to be a *.txt file; the one you listed would be perfect. I would recommend, if you are looking for very specific terms, to build your own spelling database: documentation on building a new dictionary
3. I am not adding anything to have topic based dictionaries at the moment. Perhaps this could be its own issue that can be used for a place of discussion on the idea.

I hope this is helpful!

[corinabioinformatic]

Thank you very much Barrust. I will take a look to how the programme works in deeper and the link to the documentation on building a new dictionary. Very interesting!