Lars Aronsson wrote:
Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
There are dictionnaries for aspell for 76 different languages, and of course more can be added; look at: http://aspell.sourceforge.net/man-html/Supported.html
But not all Aspell dictionaries are free. This is an area where Wiktionary and the Wikimedia Foundation could make a difference. For example, download the English dictionaries in ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/en/aspell6-en-6.0-0.tar.bz2 and read the enclosed text file named "Copyright".
Well Lars, we are not so far away from making a different point in that. It is one of the usages we have in mind with Ultimate Wiktionary. Since there we will have words in all languages and have these words in a relational database it is easy to "extract an actual spellchecker" every now and then. Being Ultimate Wiktionary data under GFDL also the spell checker is under GFDL. We are also thinking about a feedback mechanism that allows for updates and corrections. This means that for example who uses our spell checker in OmegaT or OOo or wherever gives us back the additional and/or corrected data and this can than be integrated. Also every manual edit on UW will contribute to increase the validity of spell checkers. We will for sure have over 200 languages and many millions of words (of course in these several languages). Therefore we will have also "start-up-spellcheckers" (in languages where there are no other spellcheckers) where people can work on online and offline and working on them (for example in any African language offline, where people have no stable internet connection) they also automatically contribute to UW.
Really this would need much more "digging deeper" - but I presume that even with these few lines you can imagine what it would mean to have spellcheckers in over 200 languages in gfdl.
Ciao, Sabine
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