Copied from johann-petrak/gateplugin-StringAnnotation#11

It would be interesting in general to see how well jaspell compresses data in comparison and how fast it is for looking up information.
However it may be possible to also support some form of fuzzy matching with jaspell, at least when the processing mode is limited to words only.
If we support fuzzy matching the following issues arise:
= allow various ways to prefer one or n out of many fuzzy matches. This could be based on purely string based similarity measures or also include e.g. frequency information (e.g. a specific featue in the gazetteer list).
= there may be border cases where fuzzy matches may be better then longer or shorter matches, so this is related to how we treat the matching boundaries.