Re: [native-lang] Arabic spellchecker

Hi Christian,

first of all, please forgive me for my silence

> 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)
>

an hebrew spellchecker already exists
so, there may be a way

> But this is no reason that there could not be an arabic dictionary-file.
> It just would be bigger...
> 

yes, just a list for the beginning
the spellchecking may be slow, but it would be a beginning

> 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..
> 

thanks i'll have a look

Laurent

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