To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=59960 Issue #:|59960 Summary:|Add barbarisms correction to spellchecking Component:|lingucomponent Version:|OOo 2.0.1 Platform:|All URL:| OS/Version:|All Status:|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard:| Keywords:| Resolution:| Issue type:|FEATURE Priority:|P3 Subcomponent:|spell checking Assigned to:|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reported by:|unjoan
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jan 2 08:46:13 -0800 2006 ------- REQ: Add barbarisms correction Well, sorry for long text :-( * Some info about Abiword barbarisms support, my explanation about what is a barbarism is taken from here: Mail thread: http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/Sep/0498.html * What is a barbarism Barbarism is a problem that manly concerns to minority languages, i.e. languages that are competing, in the same territory, with a more powerful one, called "rooflanguage", for example Welsh, Catalan, Occitan, and others. When two languages compete in the same territory comes up interferences, but they are not symmetric. The roof language is weakly affected but the minority one can be strongly affected, and can disappear (glottophagy). One of these interferences is barbarism. * Example: In Catalan: "tamany" is taked from Spanish "tamaño" and should be corrected by "mida" or "grandària", means "size", in English. Any spellchekcer without barbarism support doesn't suggest "mida" or "grandària" when tamany is checked. * Other cases of use for the same feature: Another possiblity for this feature is what I call "custom user suggestions". Example: If an user types wrongly the same word again and again, but hunspell can't suggest the correct word, then the user can add this wrongly typed word to barbarisms data file with the correctly word as suggestion. An other example: Imagine a common very very large text (as company name, or any text), then user can create a dummy wrong word (as myword01) in the barbarims data file and add the correct word as suggestion (my real very large company name). * How to implement it (idea or aproach) Using the MyThesaurus, with an special thesaurus file where entries are barbarisms and their synonyms are the correct suggestions. Adding something like this in suggest() function (suggestmgr.cxx): if ((nsug < maxSug) && (nsug > -1)) nsug = barbarims(wlst, word, nsug); And coding a barbarims function: barbarisms() must check the word in the barbarism 'thesaurus' file If word is in 'thesaurus' file then barbarisms() must add 'synonyms' of word as suggestions in wlst. barbarisms() must update nsug properly. * Known problems in this aproach: - Working at word level, not sentence level. We are just hacking a spell checker, not doing a grammar checker. So, some barbarims can't be corrected. It can't be solved. - Currently, words that can be declined have to be coded several times (plurals, verbs declinations, etc). It's reported as a enhancement of MyThesaurus in OOo (issue 19563) http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=19563 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
