A recent post [1] made to the 'doc' list asked about Arabic spellchecker status with regard to OpenOffice.org. I think the topic is rather broad and important enough to address it on our 'general' mailing-list. So here goes...
There has be much said regarding this topic though I'm not entirely sure where we stand with regard to an arabic spell-checker in general. I know that duali [2] was attempting to fill this void though the project has been dead for awhile (is it still even relevant any longer ?). Then there was Baghdad [3] from Mr. Sameer and later a patch and some thoughts on actually using aspell [4] (an extremely common spell checker that most applications/tools use). Later I was told about Ayaspell [5] though I have no information on it _at all_ and I'm not sure its authors are aware of the various other efforts (someone should contact them for an update on where they are and what they are planning). Personally, I think getting Arabic support into aspell would be the preferred solution instead of re-inventing the wheel but again I don't know where that stands and last I was briefed on the topic that it was experimental and that we weren't 100% certain it will fully function (something about its dictionary not being complete, etc). Maybe the solution lies with the aspell approach using Ayaspell's wordlist or roots or .... Sorry for any confusion, but I just thought to mention all I know regarding this important topic in hopes of bringing this to resolution sooner rather than later. Any other relevant news regarding this topic ? [1] http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/doc/2006/October/msg00016.html [2] http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Duali [3] http://baghdad.foolab.org/ [4] http://foolab.org/node/1482 [5] http://ayaspell.blogspot.com Salam. - Nadim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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