[newsletter] Fwd: Grammar check

[Louis Suarez-Potts]

Please include this in the next newsletter....

Thanks,

Louis



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From: Roberto Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: May 4, 2006 8:52:45 PM EDT (CA)
To: Louis Suarez-Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Grammar check

Louis,

This is to announce that the Brazilian OpenOffice.org project, through
the efforts of Prof. Carlos Menezes, has made available the first
Grammar check in Brazilian Portuguese for OpenOffice.org. It is a
pluggable module written in Perl/Java that can be used from version
1.1.x as well as the 2.0.x versions.

http://www.openoffice.org.br/?q=lancamento_do_cogroo


was a project sponsored by FINEP (a Brazilian Government research
financing institution) and developed by Prof. Carlos Menezes' team at
USP - Universidade de São Paulo and by the Centro Universitário
SENAC-SP.

We are all very proud of Prof. Menezes' work and are sure that this
first release will make OOo an even more adopted platform in Brazil.

Best regards,

--
Roberto F. Salomon
Co-lead pt-BR NLC
http://www.broffice.org
http://www.openoffice.org

The project, named CoGrOo (Corretor Gramatical acoplável ao OpenOffice)

And, from Carlos Menezes,

Releasing CoGrOO 1.0








        Software can be download at:

Linux Version:

We are happy to announce the first version of CoGrOO (Grammar Checker to OpenOffice), the only open source grammar checker to Portuguese language. This project was sponsored by FINEP (Free Software Edictal/2003), University of S„o Paulo and University Center Senac-SP, and is hosted at project incubator of FAPESP. This project has lasted two and a half years and had 12 collaborators. CoGrOO runs with OpenOffice.org (OOo) 1.X and 2.0. It is multi- platform, running in Linux and Windows (other ports will come, because our grammar checker server was implemented in Perl and GUI, in java). http://cogroo.incubadora.fapesp.br/portal/down/builds/ cogroo_installer_linux.bin

Windows Version:

http://cogroo.incubadora.fapesp.br/portal/down/builds/ cogroo_installer_windows.exe

Sources:

http://cogroo.incubadora.fapesp.br/portal/down/fontes/ cogroo_sources.tar.gz

Mirrors:
http://www.pcs.usp.br/~cogroo/installer/cogroo_installer_linux.bin
http://www.pcs.usp.br/~cogroo/installer/cogroo_installer_windows.exe
http://www.pcs.usp.br/~cogroo/installer/cogroo_sources.tar.gz

        Although it's easy to install, we are going to give some tips:

Linux:

3) You need to have pt_br locale installed.
4) Download CoGrOO Linux version installer.

6) As root, invoke the installer:  ./cogroo_installer_linux.bin


Windows:

3) Download CoGrOO Windows version installer.
4) Run installer.

6) Reboot your machine!

1) OpenOffice cannot be running during installation process (nor the OOo Quick Initializator). 2) Make sure you have Perl and Java languages installed (install Sun's JRE instead of gcj/gij). 5) Make this file an executable; use the following command: chmod +x cogroo_installer_linux.bin 7) The installation process is fairly intuitive (Next, Next, Next....). The final part of this installation process takes some time; don't worry! 1) OpenOffice cannot be running during installation process (nor the OOo Quick Initializator). 2) Make sure you have Perl and Java languages installed. Sun's JRE is available in www.javasoft.com, and ActivePerl in http:// www.activeperl.com/Products/Download/Download.plex?id=ActivePerl . 5) Remaining steps are very intuitive (Next, Next, Next....). The final part of this installation process takes some time; don't worry! Who wants to know a little of CoGrOO's history, see the interview in: http://www.openoffice.org.br/?q=node/41

Some scientific papers, describing CoGrOO's architecture, are available at: http://cogroo.incubadora.fapesp.br/portal/down/Doc/ Artigo_Clei_2005.pdf (in portuguese) http://cogroo.incubadora.fapesp.br/portal/down/Doc/LREC_2006.pdf (in english) http://cogroo.incubadora.fapesp.br/portal/down/Doc/analise (in portuguese)

Mirrors:

http://www.pcs.usp.br/~cogroo/papers/Artigo_Clei_2005.pdf (in portuguese)

http://www.pcs.usp.br/~cogroo/papers/Artigo_LREC_2006.pdf (in english)

http://www.pcs.usp.br/~cogroo/papers/analise-cogroo-corpus-metro.html (in portuguese)

        Frequently asked questions:

Does CoGrOO check other languages?


Is it a free software project?
-Yes; its license is LGPL (2.1).

        Email for contact:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

-Unfortunately, CoGrOO is ready to check texts in Portuguese only; but CoGrOO Team plans to extend it to languages like English, Spanish, etc.

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