Dear Jacob, My name is Carlos Menezes, I'm one of architects and developers of CoGrOO ( http://cogroo.incubadora.fapesp.br ), an open source Grammar Checker. Currently, version 1.1 of CoGrOO is linked with OpenOffice and corrects Brazilian Portuguese texts. Itaipu Binacional, the company that runs the largest operational hydroelectric power plant in the world, has adopted CoGrOO in 70% of its computer park (about 2,300 computers). CoGrOO is being completely rewritten (version 2) to ease its porting to others languages. Its road map plains ports to English and Spanish languages. We are looking for resources to do it. We've gotten an English corpus (donated); we need to support some developers; we need a linguist too. Linguist should do (we estimate 250 hours-man of work): - Define what is the public target of this tool (maybe native-speakers). - Estimate top-50 mistakes of this public target. - Write simple rules, according to our templates, to detect the most of these mistakes. - Test rules in our prototype. - Refine rules.
Please, we want to contact with English and Spanish linguists who are interested to participate on this project. Regards, Carlos Menezes ( cedmenezes AT gmail DOT com ) http://cogroo.incubadora.fapesp.br On 1/12/07, Jacob R Rideout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I at least would very much like to see collaboration between OpenOffice.org, > KDE and other projects on this area. We in the Finnish linguistic tools > project (Voikko) have produced a working spellchecker and hyphenator, but > integrating them to the various different applications has been a pain > because almost every application uses different backend: > - OpenOffice.org has its own API for spellchecker and hyphenator extensions, > and we support OOo by providing such extension. I've created a page on the fdo wiki for "language checking" http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fdesktop_2dlanguage_2dchecking_2dspec This isn't much on it yet, but I'd like to standardize the interfaces to spell / grammar / style checkers. Enchant isn't perfect, but it is a step in the right direction. We don't necessarily need Enchant the library, but Enchant-the-spec, a standard interface for spell checkers would be great. So, you would just have to make an Enchant-the-spec conforming plugin and you could use it in any conforming application. Enchant-the-software would provide a reference implementation and would be used by several projects, but not be required. Elixir is meant to be the same thing as Enchant, but for grammar / style checking. Currently I'm rethinking my whole approach. Actually implementing my original ideas brought up a several issues I hadn't considered. > I did not see hyphenation mentioned in your description of Sonnet. Maybe > hyphenation plugins could be supported as well, although I am not sure if > there are many free applications apart from OpenOffice.org and LaTeX that > actually support automatic hyphenation at all. Anyway, if there will some day > be hyphenation support in Sonnet, I will try to write a Finnish plugin for > it. Currently, hyphenation, doesn't exist in KDE as a whole. Words aren't hyphenated at all in general applications. KOffice, however, includes kohyphen, which for the moment won't be part of Sonnet. We might make it a component at a later date, but I have a bunch on my plate for the time being. Regards, Jacob --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
