On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 1:40 AM, Cyrille Artho <c.ar...@aist.go.jp> wrote: > Regarding the idea I just mentioned before, there is a major flaw. > > Asian languages do not have spaces. Tokenizing a text into words requires a > dictionary and is a non-trivial problem (due to inflection: different verb > forms need to be recognized, etc.). We can therefore not just scan for > whitespaces and forward anything in between to a spell checker, unless we > restrict that workaround to Western languages. >
Are there spellcheckers for e.g. Chinese ? It sounds a bit contradicting as they don't have any "spelling". Of course there are words consisting of multiple characters, but these characters can also be used on their own. Vincent
