Hi Peter, On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Peter Ruwoldt <ruwol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am wanting to develop a Pitjantjatjara spell checker for > LibreOffice.
Well, I know nothing about that language, and I'm not sure whether you really intended to write what you did. I don't think it is necessary to develop a new spell-checker, but instead it is enough to create a corresponding dictionary for the existing spellchecker, namely hunspell. > [...] I have a list of words in a unicode text file where each word is on a > new line. There are about 2300 lines/words. This is a rather short list, very likely not enough for automatic affix creation. I guess that this list doesn't included flexed forms of the words anyway (i.e. past and future forms, genitives, etc.) > I have no idea what to do next and I would appreciate clues for the next > steps. You need to have a good understanding on how words are formed in the language. For example if plural of a word is (almost) always formed by appending an "s" to a word, then you should create an affix rule for that, etc. But without knowing the languge specifics, it is hard to give a concrete path. But then again 2300 is really short. With that list, you can just save that list as a dictionary without any affix/transformation rules. But to develop a dictionary, not only a list with correct words, but also a list with (possibly automatically generated) list of misspelled words is needed, to do quality checks on your modifications. ciao Christian -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to l10n+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/l10n/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
