On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:02:41AM +0100, "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)" wrote: > Pander wrote: > > Of course this particular word list is very long and contains about > > 250,000 words and has a typical loooong tail. Many words or compositions > > or occur seldom in average day use. > > > > What would be a good cut off point in number of words, also in terms of > > performance? > > > > The Portuguese list contains 56,609 words. Is this workable? How many > > does the English contain? > > The Italian one can count also 500'000 words (to be short), but I can > get a well working dictionary only using a smaller one (with about > 150'000 words that I've taken counting its google popularity). > > Btw I've written more complete posts about this on the list...
Well, since my basis was based on a million words taken from the most printed daily newspaper in Portugal (I didn't count but still I removed a lot of non words like numbers, etc...) already with frequency data, my job was so much easier... :) As for writing SMS/text messages... I haven't found yet a word that wasn't there (in fact my problem is that it so often is the first of several matches so I have to use the menu on the left) but I must confess to not be one of those whose primary use of the phone is SMS/text! Rui -- Frink! Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 32nd day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3174 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
