A 2016-03-01 16:10, Lars Aronsson escrigué:
> On 03/01/2016 02:03 PM, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer wrote:
>> The bidix has a lot of additions by Per Tunedal from earlier (and I
>> think I saw your name in there as well?), although additions to
>> *monodix* are mostly encompassed by the new SALDO lexicon. There was a
>> lot of inconsistency to work out due to the whole lexicon change,
>> although the swe dictionary is probably a lot more correct now,
>> considering the original one was initially created by Danes :) (and of
>> course it's much bigger).
> 
> I started to contribute, but failed and left. I don't remember
> the details, but I think it was something like this: When one
> grammatical rule covers the inflected forms of many words,
> and a handful of them need an exception to that rule, Per
> had a tendency to rewrite the rule for those few words
> without considering the many others. It was too easy to
> modify the rule and no regression tests for the other words
> or phrases that used that rule. It seemed impossible to me
> to guarantee any quality or correctness.

That sounds like a pretty bad experience. But now, with the SALDO-based
dictionary it should be much better. In essence you should only need to
add words to the bilingual dictionary :)

Fran

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