Re: [native-lang] Arabic spellchecker

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..

ciao
Christian
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