According to Lachlan Andrew: > Greetings, > > On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:53, Gilles Detillieux wrote: > > According to Geoff Hutchison: > > > > Is the policy to have all possible stemmings, even if > > > > they are "non-words", like "unrealises"? > > > No, and I'd expect that ispell doesn't want them > > > either. Of course many people have moved away from > > > ispell too... > > Does that mean we'll end up having to add support for > > aspell dictionaries to htfuzzy endings? > > Does it matter that the list originally came from ispell? > Its role here is fundamentally different. For a spell > checker, you only care what combinations of letters are > valid words. For a stemmer, you only want to know which > "words" are derived from a common stem. Unless the same > actual file is used for spell checking, it is not clear why > it matters what spell checker people use. Am I missing > something?
It only matters in that it may have an impact on available dictionaries. We can tweak the english dictionary all we want, but if someone wants a dictionary for some other language and finds that such a dictionary is better supported or more complete/correct in aspell or some other spell checker, than it is with ispell, then they may start asking for support in htfuzzy for these other dictionary formats. > > I've made the changes to english.0 and synonyms, with one > > minor addition (adding D & S flags to birth). > > Thanks for that. You might want to reconsider the '/S' > flag; it produces 'birthes', not 'births' as you might > expect. (The '*h -> es' rule suits words like 'wreath'.) > That rule and its use are among the things I hope to clean > up after 3.2.0b5 is out... It's out of there. Thanks for the heads-up. I've reinserted "births" instead, for the sake of completeness, even though htfuzzy won't use it. A quick grep shows there are a lot of *hs words in there that htfuzzy can't make use of. The quick fix would be to grab one of the available flags (BCEFKLOQW) and use that for th->ths, but it might be more logical to keep the S flag for th->ths pluralizations, and use something like E for th->thes conjugations. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get the new Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0002en _______________________________________________ htdig-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-dev
