[L-A Lokalisointi] finnish spell checker (fwd)

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--Kim

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Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 10:09:06 -0500
From: Kevin Patrick Scannell <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: finnish spell checker


Dear Kim,

    I've been working with Kevin Atkinson (the author and maintainer
of GNU Aspell) on the development of new dictionaries for
the upcoming release of Aspell 0.60.   This release will
have full support for affix compression which, of course,
is necessary for languages like Finnish.

   We're wondering if you or members of the KDE Finnish translation
team might be interested in helping develop the existing
ispell-fi dictionary.   It seems that the myspell Finnish
dictionary, while (I'm told) it's quite good, is not free software.

   One approach might be to use some web-crawling software I've
written:

   http://borel.slu.edu/crubadan/

   We can generate lists of high-frequency words that aren't in
the existing dictionary, then (this is the tricky part)
do some "stemming" so that the appropriate root words can
be added with the correct affix flags automatically.

Kevin