eleonora46 wrote: > If both the above are true, then the spell checker > did a really good work.
Did you try to compute these numbers for your own German dictionary, and compare it to the other German dictionaries from Björn Jacke or Franz Michael Baumann? German is one of few languages where more than one free dictionary is available, so it could be a good test case. Since you continue to work in parallel, I guess each of you are convinced that you do a better job than the others? How do you measure or compare this? German is a good test case also for another reason: Many people in Europe (such as me) know it as their 3rd language, after their native language and English. > The recognition of obscure words is more the area of grammar checkers, > they should mark obscure words being similar to often used, > mispelled words. This note on obscure words connects to what Kevin wrote: > > cases, like the obscure word "yor" in English, should clearly > > not be included since they are most likely to be a misspelling > > of a common word. It seems we would need statistics on how common "yor" (or should that be yore?) is in its right use and how common it is as a misspelling of "your" (or you're). It is easy enough to find statistics on word frequencies, but how or where can we find stats on errors? A simple Google search finds 2.59 billion "your" and 4.17 million "yore", but I cannot tell which of the "yore" occurrences are errors. There are also 4.37 million (!) hits for "yor" but they seem to be a film title, a surname, various company names and the ISO language code for Yoruba. The first obvious error usage I find is "all yor base r blong 2 us", which is apparently stylistic and not a mistake. One idea for finding stats on errors is to compare changes made to Wikipedia articles. The complete text revision history is available from download.wikimedia.org. All you need is to step through the changes and make statistics for all the small changes such as "yor" being changed to "your". Has anybody done this? Another idea is to make OpenOffice.org report all corrections made by users worldwide to some centralized database. I guess this would conflict with users' interest in their own privacy. -- Lars Aronsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
