Re: Fwd: Arabic Spellchecker for OpenOffice

On 3/24/06, Mohammed Sameer <msameer at foolab dot org> wrote:

>    that I collected over the years, but I have recently had the time to write a
>    Perl script that breaks a text into individual words and then dedupes them
>    to make sure every word is unique. Since then I ran this program on millions
>    of words and it works 99% perfect. There is some rubbish but it is easy to
>    spot and clean manually. I will send you all a preliminary list this next
>    Monday. If it is ok I want to be the filter for updating such a list if that
>    is ok. I believe it will be easier this way. Let me know what your thoughts
>    are.

That's not a big problem, I wrote a small C program that'll only output valid Arabic
text from any file, Using cut, tr, sort, uniq one can easily obtain the required format.

Being the filter for updating or not is not something I can decide, You can either
be part of Arabeyes and you'll be the only one to update or do it on your own and you
will be the only one to update it too.

But be aware that anyone can simply take the word list and fork, You can't control
something like that, Honestly, I also don't like the fact that you'll be the only
one who'll update it.

Best regards,

>
>
>    Jabra
>
>
>    On 3/24/06, Mohammed Sameer <[1]msameer@foolab.org> wrote:
>
>      Hi,
>      For the 1st time since a long time I'll pop in.
>      Please guys, The plain word list approach will work. I was objecting to
>      the affix
>      thing not because it's bad, It's because it'll not be completed thus it'll
>      delay
>      and stall the whole process "and it happened as I said".
>      Let's go with the word list approach and then later the affix can be done
>      Check this: [2]ftp://foolab.org/pub/software/aspell/aspell- quran.tgz
>      That's a plain word list generated from the words of the holy Quran
>      without the
>      affix approach and it works fine
>      Please jobs, If you have such a list and you know that the spelling of its
>      words is
>      correct, Please release it, I'm welling to maintain it and add missing
>      words as long
>      as I'm able to.
>      Flame me for the above words, Do anything but please release it if you
>      can.
>      Regarding the copyright: You can't copyright a word list, You can only
>      copyright the
>      representation of words in the list. Alaa, Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>      PS. You might like to read this to understand the different stages I
>      passed by!
>      [3]http://www.foolab.org/node/1439
>      [4]http://www.foolab.org/node/1482
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> References
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>    1. mailto:msameer at foolab dot org
>    2. ftp://foolab.org/pub/software/aspell/aspell-quran.tgz
>    3. http://www.foolab.org/node/1439
>    4. http://www.foolab.org/node/1482
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