Greetings,

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:53, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> According to Geoff Hutchison:
> > > Is the policy to have all possible stemmings, even if
> > > they are "non-words", like "unrealises"?
> > No, and I'd expect that ispell doesn't want them
> > either. Of course many people have moved away from
> > ispell too...
> Does that mean we'll end up having to add support for
> aspell dictionaries to htfuzzy endings?

Does it matter that the list originally came from  ispell?  
Its role here is fundamentally different.  For a spell 
checker, you only care what combinations of letters are 
valid words.  For a stemmer, you only want to know which 
"words" are derived from a common stem.  Unless the same 
actual file is used for spell checking, it is not clear why 
it matters what spell checker people use.  Am I missing 
something?

> I've made the changes to english.0 and synonyms, with one
> minor addition (adding D & S flags to birth).

Thanks for that.  You might want to reconsider the '/S' 
flag; it produces 'birthes', not 'births' as you might 
expect.  (The '*h -> es' rule suits words like 'wreath'.)  
That rule and its use are among the things I hope to clean 
up after 3.2.0b5 is out...

> Let's get the doc changes in.  Then, if we can
> get the xml stuff in for 3.2.0b5, great.

OK :)

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