spellcheckers

Day 2: Spellchecker notes

Spellcheckers (using Hunspell engine)

  • paa.kwesi compiling league table of spellcheckers
  • Tunde looking to work on Igbo spellchecker
  • Tunde suggests creating a spellchecker how-to

  • outline of manual
  • explanation of how Hunspell works
  • San-James asking for a checklist of what to do in order to create a spellchecker?
  • work with linguist or get data from someone with linguistic

information on a language

  • large amount of text as corpus
    • write tools to crawl the web as a way to collect text for corpus
      • corpus catcher from ANLoc
      • corpus crawler from Kevin Scannell
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