On Tue, May 21, 2002, Ely Levy wrote about "Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?": > Same way dagesh and word and michal and many other dictionaries/hebrew > spellers did it. > hebrew is not THAT complicated langauge.
Saying this is not very helpful... Do you know how the spellchecker in dagesh, word and michal even work? How do you know they didn't spend 10 years of 10 linguists to develop that system? Some time ago it was mentioned on ivrix-discuss that most of these spell checkers are the result of the work of a single team of researchers, the ones who also created "rav-milim" I think (see http://www.melingo.com/ab.htm), and their technology was later licensed by other companies. The fact that it "has been done" doesn't mean that you can replicate their work in a week of late-night hacking... The approach Dan and I took was a relatively simple one, that we could have finished in a couple of months if we really put all our efforts into it. Unfortunately we are both busy over our heads with other things and this project got abandoned :( Tzafrir also pointed us to the research of some Technion graduate student who worked in this area, but I never had time to follow through and see how much it can fit our needs. If you have another approach, one that doesn't involve pirating other companies' word lists, and works, feel free to implement it instead of just saying "Hebrew is not THAT complicated". P.S. If we want to lower the volume of messages in linux-il, I suggest that discussions specific to implementing Hebrew on Linux (not "a Hebrew mailing list - pros or cons"!!) be moved to ivrix-discuss. -- Nadav Har'El | Tuesday, May 21 2002, 10 Sivan 5762 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Computers are like air conditioners. Both http://nadav.harel.org.il |stop working if you open windows. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
