2009/12/31 Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il>: > We are proud to present version 1.1 of Hspell, the free Hebrew spell-checker > and morphological analyzer. > > You can find the new release in the project's homepage: > http://hspell.ivrix.org.il/ > > Over three years have passed since our previous release. In that time, we > continued to improve Hspell's vocabulary, and enlarged it by 900 more base > words. Hspell is now closer to full coverage of the modern Hebrew language > than it ever was. > > We've always been proud of Hspell's accuracy and its compliance with the > spelling standard set by the Academy of the Hebrew Language. Nevertheless, > we continuously get asked why Hspell spells certain words the way that it > does. So, starting with this release, Hspell now includes a document which > describes its spelling standard and discusses the numerous spelling questions > which we had to answer while developing hspell. > This document is still a work in progress, but even at its present form > is already quite readable and, we hope, educational. It is available in > Hspell's tarball, and also online: > http://hspell.ivrix.org.il/niqqudless.pdf > > Not only people who download Hspell from our site will benefit from this > release. For several years now, only a minority of Hspell's users downloaded > it from our site. Hspell has become the de-facto standard Hebrew spell-checker > in the free software world and beyond; It is available in Linux distributions, > in Aspell's and Hunspell's dictionary collections, and as OpenOffice and > Firefox plugins. Even Google's hugely popular mail service, GMail, uses > Hspell as its Hebrew spell-checker. We expect that the new Hspell release > will soon propagate to all these applications, so that their users will > also be able to enjoy the improved vocabulary of Hspell 1.1. > > Enjoy Hspell 1.1. No further releases are expected this year ;-) > > Nadav Har'El and Dan Kenigsberg. >
Congratulations! I was under the impression that hspell development was pretty much stalled indefinitely. This release is great news. I have a long word list that can be added to hspell, mostly words such as Ubuntu, Linux, and such. I do not speak "English/Russian/Greek as Hebrew" and certainly would not add those words to a dictionary. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
