Ginger in the press

The Jerusalem Post 16 September 2008

'Too bee by the see'

Extract from an article in Issue 12, September 29, 2008 of The Jerusalem Report.

Cn u cee wot is rong wiht this sntenc? Most of us have become accustomed to relying on computerized spell checkers to catch and correct spelling errors - and consider them a godsend compared to the alternative: leafing through a dictionary. But standard spell-checkers leave much to be desired.  Read The Article 

Israel21c.net 18 August 2008

Ginger's spellchecker helps dyslexics get it right

Spellcheckers on computer software did to language what calculators have done to math, unless you are one of the 15 percent of Americans who suffer from dyslexia. While Microsoft Word's spellchecker can tell you how to spell your words properly, it can't handle the complex language problems that dyslexics face on a daily basis... Read the article

BusinessWeek 25 July 2008

Write on, dood

Spell-checking software can catch typos. But write a sentence like “Eye wood hate to be a bad spiller,” and your word processor signals all clear—because each word is correctly spelled. Now Ginger Software, an Israeli startup, claims it is creating an English-language program that will fix spelling errors in one click based on a reading of an entire sentence. Most spell checkers look only at nearby words to alert writers to misusage (“their” for “there,” say). A truly contextual checker would be “a big deal,” says Daniel Kies, a linguistics professor at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Ill., who follows advances in spell checkers. It would also require lots of computer memory, a problem Ginger says it will solve by leaving the heavy lifting to its server, which the software will access when in use. Currently the program focuses on mistakes made by dyslexics, a major target market for Ginger... Read the article 

Haaretz.com 16 July 2008 

Start-up company may have a cure for dyslexic typos

There are problems in life that Microsoft can't solve for us, and one is spelling out of context. Type "My aidl holiday wood bee in nue zeelend, were I can go hickin" into Word and the software will be completely befuddled. If you run the Microsoft Word spell checker and choose the first suggested alternative for each error, you'll get: "My aid holiday wood bee in nude zee lend, were I can go hick in." Great..... Read the article