Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 01:47:52AM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: Can you please expand on the reasons you chose not to incorporate the generated word lists as a language package to some existing spell checker (such as myspell or aspell) and thus making it immidietly useful for end users ? I

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002, Oded Arbel wrote about Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker: Can you please expand on the reasons you chose not to incorporate the generated word lists as a language package to some existing spell checker (such as myspell or aspell) and thus making it immidietly

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Nadav Har'El, from the post of Sun, 15 Dec: If you look at hspell.pl you'll see that the code in it is fairly trivial, simply looking up words in word tables generated in advanced (part by hand, part automatically - into which the real brains of this project went), with only

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Eli Marmor
Nadav Har'El wrote: 1. Aspell does not (or at least we didn't figure out how to) support prefixes, so instead of a 125,000 word word list (in this release) we had to multiply this by the number of prefixes (he, shin, etc. - about 20 prefixes in all) and the resulting

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002, Ira Abramov wrote about Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker: are you doing the tests per-word or do you also try to do heuristics about whether words are syntacticly vers, nouns, adjectives and such based on structure/order? The tests are currently per-word

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Nadav Har'El, from the post of Sun, 15 Dec: They where playing in the park, and than it started to reign. (note that the last error - rain/reign, is particularly hard to catch, I see no error there, it's a perfectly correct English sentence. question is if you could fix: Ani

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002, Ira Abramov wrote about Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker: Quoting Nadav Har'El, from the post of Sun, 15 Dec: They where playing in the park, and than it started to reign. (note that the last error - rain/reign, is particularly hard to catch, I see

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote about Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker: nor can it rain). So it started means what hetchil means in Hebrew ... Hem sichaku ba-park, v-pit'om hitchil limloch. And sorry about the major fadichot in my transliterations above :( -- Nadav

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Alon Altman
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sun, Dec 15, 2002, Oded Arbel wrote about Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker: Can you please expand on the reasons you chose not to incorporate the generated word lists as a language package to some existing spell checker

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: favorite=favourite? umm, ispell (or was it aspell?) complained to me once about coloUr? ach, Americans... damn yankies... The man page of the old spell(1) said in its BUGS section: British spelling was done by an American. I could not find any

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002, Alon Altman wrote about Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker: However, you could suggest a *patch* to aspell which will replace the word-checking routine for Hebrew BTW - Any plans of creating a CPAN module Lingua::HE::Spell (or the All these suggestions

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Eli Marmor
Did you look at the work of Erel Segal (http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~erelsgl) and his morphologial analyzer? Yes, I did notice his work. But he does not publish anywhere where he got his word lists (and what are their copyright status). Probes sent to him about this issue were not

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Oron Peled
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 18:20:19 +0200 Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: favorite=favourite? umm, ispell (or was it aspell?) complained to me once about coloUr? ach, Americans... damn yankies... Check your example with: aspell --language-tag=en-british aspell

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Nadav Har'El, from the post of Sun, 15 Dec: On Sun, Dec 15, 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote about Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker: nor can it rain). So it started means what hetchil means in Hebrew ... Hem sichaku ba-park, v-pit'om hitchil limloch. And sorry about the major

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Alon Altman, from the post of Sun, 15 Dec: However, you could suggest a *patch* to aspell which will replace the word-checking routine for Hebrew umm, what does aspell/ispell/gspell do about Smikhut(trns?) in German? where you can pretty much stick almost any two or three nouns

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 09:25:54PM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote: Did you look at the work of Erel Segal (http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~erelsgl) and his morphologial analyzer? Yes, I did notice his work. But he does not publish anywhere where he got his word lists (and what are their

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Eli Marmor
Ira Abramov wrote: it = zeh Are you sure? And I've thought that it = Technologiot HaMeida. Or Ginger. Just Do IT! (TM of Nike) -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __ Tel.:

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-14 Thread Oded Arbel
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Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
We are proud to announce version 0.1 of Hspell, the free Hebrew spellchecker and morphology engine. We have worked very hard to bring you a fully working Hebrew spellchecker on the first release. It is not a toy release, and on typical documents it should recognize the majority of correct words.