Lars Aronsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will the end user (of oowriter) notice any difference whether the > Myspell/Hunspell dictionary uses affix flags or not? Is there any > added value in providing a spelling dictionary with flags, as > opposed to a flat list of word forms? Depends on the language. In English probably not with a modern computer. In German the word list is roughly 4-6 times larger, therefore startup would be much slower without affices. You can not build a usable Hungarian, Finnish or Turkish dictionary without affices. > Of the affix files I've looked at (da, de, en, no, sv), only the > Danish has comments for each flag. The others look more like > object code than source code. Were they converted automatically > >from older ispell affix files? Is the distribution of the derivate > without comments allowed by the licenses (GPL? LGPL?) of the > original files? Does anybody maintain .dic files manually, > knowing the flags by heart, or are .dic files always generated by > the likes of ispell's munchlist program?
Again depends on the language. For English, German handcrafted, for Hungarian/Finnish/Turkish generated. > As the affix flags often do indicate plurals, genitives and other > grammatical patterns of words, it would seem natural to combine > this with grammar checking and thesaurus, but no such connection > exists with today's ispell/myspell/hunspell. For example, in the > current English thesaurus, "man" is an antonym of "woman", but > "men" is not an antonym of "women". German "Buch" has synonyms in > Lektüre, Titel, Werk, but "Bücher" and "Büchern" has no synonym. > Has any attempts been made to create a unified higher level > dictionary format, from which a spelling dictionary, hyphenation, > and thesaurus can be generated? For grammar checking almost the same dictionary is (or can be) used for German and Hungarian, except, that the word type must be added. For English not, since it needs a POS information, which is very specific for English grammar checking. Hyphenation and thesaurus do not need affix information as far as I know. -eleonora -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
