Just want to make sure everyone is aware of the existing tools, maybe if someone is tracking Kwrite developement or OpenOffice.org could add more information. Maybe Daniel could tell us if he is using the same algorithms as these other programs or share with us the strengths and weaknesses of other tools (although from what i can understand his paper has plenty of information).
It might nearly be easier to integrate a Perl based grammar checker into an built Abiword with Perl support than requiring Python. the HTML version of Daniels paper (i only had time to skim read it) http://www.danielnaber.de/languagetool/html/ Google Translation to English http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.danielnaber.de%2Flanguagetool%2Fhtml%2F&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&prev=%2Flanguage_tools Altavista Bablefish English translation http://babelfish.altavista.com/urltrurl?tt=url&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.danielnaber.de%2Flanguagetool%2Fhtml%2F&lp=de_en unfortunately these only translates the first few pages, and relative links dont seem to work in the translated versions. The Gnu Style and Diction utilities http://www.gnu.org/software/diction/diction.html it has been suggested that these could be converted to abiword plugins and used for limited grammar checking. http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3281 http://www.abisource.com/information/news/2002/awn106.phtml#target2 These dont seem to have been mentioned by Daniel. The Link Grammar checker http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/ Did they ever get back in touch with any of the abiword developers about letting AbiWord use the Link Grammar checker under a GPL compatible license? (i that Link is mentioned in Daniels bibliography) OpenOffice does not seem to be currently working on any grammar checking solution based on this page http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/lingucomponent/grammar.html but the surface does not show what is bubbling underneath (and google does not parse things like issue zilla). Good luck with your project Sincerely Alan Horkan Word! http://abisource.com http://openoffice.org http://gnome.org http://evolvedoo.sourceforge.net On 3 Sep 2002, Dom Lachowicz wrote: > Date: 03 Sep 2002 16:07:40 -0400 > From: Dom Lachowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Forward: Grammar checker info > > Daniel forwarded this to me. I'm sending it to the list. > > Hi, > > I'm not sure what's the current situation wrt grammar checking in OOo, > but I guess there's no grammar checker included yet. > > I've written a simple Open source grammar checker for English as an > university project. The first version can be downloaded here: > > http://www.danielnaber.de/languagetool/ > > I'm currently re-writing it in Pyhton, so please don't care about the > ugly Perl code. I don't claim that this is powerful -- but it's not > vaporware either, and it's extensible. It has some nice extra features > like warning a non-native speaker when he uses a false friend (a > misleading word). It's not OOo related but a standalone program with a > KOffice GUI frontend (optional). The paper that describes it is in > German only, sorry. > > The reason I'm mailing you is just to let you know such a thing exists > and it will be improved. There's not much point in trying to integrate > this into OOo - yet. > > Feel free to forward this to other people who might be interested (and > who might even be able to read my German paper about it). > > Regards > Daniel > > -- > http://www.danielnaber.de
