Re: QaMoose

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Tamer El-Nasser <tamer at maktoob dot com> wrote:  
> I'd like to know more about its functionality, like the words database, is
> it installed locally on the server or does it query a URL for every word it
> tries to detect.

You can do both - the query of an external agent (URL as you put it) can be
done by any DICT client as QaMoose abides by the DICT protocol.  I'd highly
recommend you read the README file along with the various docs as part of
the package.

> One more thing, I'm looking to add more functionality to it to be
> unidirectional, I mean to translate from Arabic to English too, do
> you think this is doable with the correct version, or does require
> lots of customization?

Its not a question of customization per se, its a question of simply adding
the appropriate code.  The key here is not so much the mechanism by which to
add words (that's easy enough to do) what is key to all of this is the ability
to generate external wordlists (like Arabeyes' current English-to-Arabic
wordlist project [1] -- we'd planned on starting an Arabic-to-English effort
once we complete the afore mentioned list but we don't have a timeline just
yet).  In short, what's of interest is not how the data is gotten (ie. the
method), but the availability and quality of the data (a dedicated team working
on a wordlist we've found is alot more realistic than depending on the 
occasional entry by random people).

> I know that you might be doing this on your spare time, but I appreciate
> your prompt response.

Keep in mind that this code is under GPL license and as such we expect all
to abide by its license and ethics.  Let us know if you undertake any
future work in this regard.

In the future do please use the 'developer' list for any questions/comments.
  
> Tamer El-Nasser
> Development Manager
> Maktoob.com, Inc.

[1]  http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Wordlist

Salam.

 - Nadim


		
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