TWiki is already using a simple Do What I Mean idea when it tries singular/plural topic names before giving up and marking a topic as non-existent (the question-mark link).
Why don't we extend the idea further? We could
- look for word permutations (e.g. WebGlossary instead than GlossaryWeb)
- ask a glossary to find synonims (see GlossaryWeb)
- ask a spell-checker to correct typing errors (e.g. ispell) (see SpellChecker)
- better, ask a thesaurus for synonims (e.g. wordnet)
- do word permutations to find phrase fragments (see AutomaticLinkSuggestionPlugin)
- do soundex pattern matching to try further topic name transformations.
I propose these (longer?) computations are used only if requested, only during Preview or as offline tools.
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AndreaSterbini - 29 Nov 2000
SuggestSingularNotPlural
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MartinCleaver - 11 Oct 2003
I am starting to be of the opinion that it would be a good idea to introduce a
ComparedToOperator to name the concept at which two concepts meet. For example, HealthCare..IntegrationBroker would be the name of the topic where integration brokers are used in healthcare. We could have a rule that says the alphabetically first concept comes first in the pair.
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MartinCleaver - 21 May 2001
My current thinking is we do the
ComparedToOperator with a comma.
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MartinCleaver - 23 Sep 2001
Do what I mean:
- I paste from an HTML page into TML. Bullets drop 4 spaces not 3, this screws up the formatting. Why not correct it for me?
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MartinCleaver - 08 Nov 2005
I'm trying to find a discussion of pluralization and related features, but can't. So I'm planting a link here to a new topic
GeneralizingFindElsewhereAndPluralHandling
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AndyGlew - 28 Mar 2006