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Re: Arabic Spellchecker



On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 10:29:10PM -0400, Khaled Hassounah wrote:
> I hope that you are keeping in mind that spell checkers should normalize
> text to insure that words with tashkeel are checked correctly, or better
> yet that tashkeel is checked for correctness if present. The latter
> should be a nice to have given where we are today, but a system should
> at least allow for it in the future.
> 

I guess it can be done with hunspell using some Arabic specific custom code.
I guess it has been done also. I have no idea whether this is doable with aspell or not.

I've been searching for an Arabic normalization standard but I didn't find. Do you have
any ? I'd really appreciate that.

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