Uri, I am not sure that you grasp the enormity of the task at hand. However, I don't want to discourage you. Unlike others, I would appreciate a stupid translator that replaces a word by a word. It would be wonderful to have a free software that is as bad Google or babelfish. I would LOVE to have a free too to make fun about. Now we have nothing.
So go on and get to work. Note that if I were you, I'd set myself a more realistic goals first. In a way, I am you: when we set out to write hspell we had dreams of a linguistic future. I hope that the huge list that we collected, of almost all modern Hebrew words, will be useful to you. > I want to have both an algorithm and a database of languages (words, > phrases etc) that will improve over time. That is, start with a simple > algorithm, and feed data into it. The data will be sources and > translations in any language. When there is enough data for a given The database you describe here is not dissimilar to WordNet, and I am told that few list members are trying to extend the Hebrew WordNet. Maybe you can join them. -- Dan Kenigsberg http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~danken ICQ 162180901 ================================================================= 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]
