Kevin, I saw that documentation,and it made me the impression that Gramadoir is pretty much hard wired.
It - for example- does not seem to contain any support for affixes/prefixes. This is IMHO a basic need even for German, and inevitable for Hungarian. Neither could I find support for word types like noun, verb, and the like. The Starting a new language part writes about technical things like CVS handling, makefiles, but nothing about the working of the grammar checker, how to add new rules to it manually and the like. It generates something, and that's it. It does not even mention, what kind of rules are generated and how can the user influence their generation. Especially there are no examples for the individual rules. The Grammar Checking Process part does mention the rialacha-xx.in file, but it does not explain, what tags are available, and how they should be used. The complete auto-creation procedure described in Statistical support makes the impression, that the whole procedure is hard-wired for Celtic languages and maybe for English. The machine may look completely language-independent for you, but I do not see this - see above. Thanks, Eleonora Re: [lingu-dev] gravix spell checker (Kevin Patrick Scannell, Sat Sep 24 22:38:35 2005) > I also checked Gramadoir, which for me seems to be extremely hard > wired to Irish/Gaelic/Celtic and I see no chance to apply that for any > other language. This is probably due to its lack of usable > documentation, but also the structure of the program might be the > reason. There's a docbook manual here for An Gramadóir: http://borel.slu.edu/gramadoir/manual/index.html And what's more, if you actually read it, you'll discover there is a completely language-independent core engine, with nothing Celtic hard-wired. -Kevin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
