Christian Lohmaier wrote: > > Swedish dictionary (which is from 2003, but almost unchanged since > > 1997) has 24,489 basic forms and expands to 118,270 variations. > > This is clearly inferior. > > So here you see another problem. If a language has lots of variations of > a single word, how can you judge that not 12000 of the expanded words > are based on "useless" words (not in widespread use, hiding typos,...) > or the other way round: You cannot tell that the important ones are > present.
What I can tell you is that it is impossible to cover the important words in Swedish if your expanded list only contains 118,270 words unless they were hand-picked, and I know they are not. You seem to be of the opinion that this task is impossible, but it is not. I don't have to arrive at complete knowledge, I only have to outsmart the competition. So far, Microsoft and other vendors can say that their product is robust, well researched and based on science, while the spell checker in OpenOffice is based on wild guessing and general cluelessness. The buyer/procurer doesn't have anything to counter such statements. All I need is a sufficiently strong argument to counter whatever Microsoft is saying. It's like the two people walking on the savanna of Africa when a lion comes up behind them. They start to run, but one of them says: "it's no idea, we can never outrun the lion". The other answers: "I don't have to outrun the lion, I only have to outrun you." Now, in fact it isn't Microsoft that's giving OpenOffice a bad name. It's the Swedish branch of Sun Microsystems that on their web pages for StarOffice claim that this product contains a professional grade Swedish spell checker, while OpenOffice has one created in web forums that cannot really be trusted. I do take offense, and I think this strategy is unwise of Sun, because it gives them enemies in places where they ought to be looking for friends. But I think I can outrun Sun here. It's they who are pushing me into this fight. And we all know the lion. -- Lars Aronsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
