[Hamara-devel] indian english spell checker in hamara ?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting shirish (2015-11-23 18:43:25)
> While there are various English spell-checkers in Debian and other 
> distros. there isn't an Indian english spell-checker for various 
> languages. It would be nice to have such a spell-checker in hamara 
> which will reduce the time it takes for a new user to start using the 
> system. The spell-checker would be useful in many ways :-

Hear, hear!!

The approach in Denmark to grow a Free wordlist was to setup a public 
volunteer process of proof-reading words:

 1) Harvest a pile of "possible" words from various (free!) sources
 2) Invite anyone to register as proof-reading volunteer
 3) Ask "is this a proper danish word?" for random words in the pile
 4) Compile lists of words vetted by 4, 5, 6 or 7 volunteers.

This resources for the danish system is here: http://da.speling.org/

It is free to reuse, but documentation is partly in danish.  I would be 
happy translating the parts you need, if that approach is of interest. 
Perhaps it could even be streamlined and packaged into Debian, for 
potential use for other wordlist communities Worldwide - I'd be happy 
participating in such team (but won't do it alone).


> A list of such Indian-English words, updation, support etc. would make 
> hamara a pretty unique offering.

Oh. if you want to be _unique_ then the danish approach is not for you - 
you probably should instead go for a non-free closed (perhaps even 
patented?) process to ensure that your competitors (e.g. Debian) don't 
steal your advantage on the India market.  Or what else could possibly 
be implied by "unique offering"?


 - jonas

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