Rudolf de Grijs wrote: > > What I did notice is that for the dutch language there is a list with > base words and a list with derived words.
There is no concept of derived words in our spell-checker. Our spell-checker is designed to efficiently crunch flat word lists. Note that a word list may be really huge (*millions* of words). > If I would check the German word > /Anmeldungsgegenstand /with the default included dictionary then this > word is not recognized. But the words /Anmeldung /and /Gegenstand /are > known. That's right. You need to add words like Anmeldungsgegenstand to your word list, because there is an "s" between Anmeldung and Gegenstand. Note that you don't have to do that for ``true compound words''. German example: In "Obama beginnt mit Krisengespr?chen", Krisengespr?chen is found to be OK by our spell-checker though it has not been explicitly added to the German word list from which the corresponding dictionary comes from. However the German word list indeed contains: Krisen and Gespr?chen. > So I do get the feeling that a list is required for those (most > frequently used) derived words (like I have included for the dutch > dictionary). My question is: is my assumption correct or is their some > algorithm that can perform the spellcheckon these derived words? There is no such algorithm. Feel free to add all the derived words you want. But no need to add ``true compound words'' and no need to add words starting with common prefixes (e.g. auto). See "-prefixes word_list" in http://www.xmlmind.com/_dictbuilder/doc/using_builder.html. See also "%compoundmin length" in http://www.xmlmind.com/_dictbuilder/doc/hints_file.html --- PS: For the reasons explained before, our spell-checker does not detect any error for Anmeldunggegenstand (without the "s"). The German language is very, very, difficult to spell-check. The fact that our spell-checker has severe flaws in the case of German is one of the reasons why we have retired our spell-checker as a commercial product.
