Re: [native-lang] Arabic spellchecker

[Ossama Khayat <okhayat at yahoo dot com>]

Salam,
I'm forwarding your mail to our Developer list in case someone is interested.

- Ossama Khayat
Arabic N/L Lead

--- Christian Lohmaier <cloph at cup dot uni-muenchen dot de> wrote:
> Hi Laurent, *,
> 
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 04:44:17PM +0200, Laurent Godard wrote:
> > 
> > I've been asked for an arabic spellchecker inside OOo
> > it appears that nothing is available
> > 
> > Do someone have informations if something is on the rails, if a 
> > MySpell/Aspell directory is available and be used aso
> 
> I think the problem is to find a suitable algorithm to form the words.
> An arabic (I think it there is similar problems with hebrew) dictionary
> list would currently have to contain all possible forms of a word (or at
> least a big deal of them). myspell only works with prefixes/suffixes
> wich is not suitable for arabic. (Please correct me when I'm writing
> nonsense here)
> 
> But this is no reason that there could not be an arabic dictionary-file.
> It just would be bigger...
> 
> A quick search at google reveiled 
> http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=duali
> 
> an arabic spellchecker that uses a different affix-format but that could
> serve as a base for a myspell-compatible dictionary.
> 
> Their cvs also contains a directory "openoffice" - maybe they're already
> working on integrating the spell-checker..
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