On 04:16 Sat 18 Nov     , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > If not, are there plans to develop something like
> > this?  It seems like it might be something that
> > could be achieved with calls to hunspell, at least
> > for those languages which have some morphology
> > encoded in an affix file.
> 
> There is a plan. See http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=19563

Thanks Laci, that's good news.

> It would be fine to add a lightweight stemmer to the
> thesaurus code combining rule-based stemming with suggestion
> filtering by the dictionary (thesaurus data).
...
> Using Hunspell would be better for morphologically complex
> languages and for suffixation of the suggested synonyms. Or we need both,
> Hunspell, and a probability stemmer with metaphon-like operations
> supporting many Irish ortographies at the same time.

The Irish hunspell affix file would be more than sufficient -
no need for anything probabilistic.  So I'll be thrilled if
you manage to integrate hunspell into the thesaurus code -- should work 
perfectly for us!
-Kevin

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