About a year ago I tried to create a spellchecker for Luxembourgish ("Lëtzebuergesch"). Unfortunately, I had to stop after a few weeks because I didn't have much time.
I relaunched the project a week ago and some people agreed to help me.
1. Are there any web-based tools that I can use to "manage" the word-lists and that allow other users to contribute?
Look at www.kurnik.pl/slownik - it's all in Polish, but the spell checker they built is really impressive (by the way, the dictionary is only a by-product of a dictionary used for a Polish version of Scrabble game; you could do the same to promote users to add words). The email to the admin is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I can ask the admin myself if you prefer, email me privately if you want). The whole project seems to be "creative commons" licensed, so it should be ok for you.
2. Should I first create the affix rules and then classify the words or should I simply collect words and "munch" the wordlist with the myspell standalone-tool? What is your experience with collecting words?
I think you would need to create affix rules and test them, and compare it with the results of munching, then change affix rules and compare etc. This would require a lot of testing cycles to get a good affix list, I guess.
Best,
Marcin
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