Subject: Re: Specialised dictionaries [was Re: localization formats proposal]
From: Kevin Atkinson (kevina@users.sourceforge.net)
Date: Mon Jul 16 2001 - 13:17:03 CDT
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Alan wrote:
> > Speaking of dictionaries, are there any (English preferably) subject
> > specific dictionaries? One of my friends studying old english would
> > kill for a spell checker, a spellchecker that actually understood
> > Computer Jargon, or a medical spellchecker, or slang. Being able to add
> > a particular and specific lexicon would mean i would not need to have
> > such a vast custom dictionary (and i would not keep having to add terms
> > like Netscape, Abiword, Gnu, Javascript and others to a huge and
> > inefficient custom dictionary).
>
> This is more about spell checkers than real dictionaries.
>
> To partially answer my own question there is of course the Jargon
> File/New Hackers Dictionary. All i need know is to find if it some one
> has already packaged it for ispell or if there is an easy way to convert
> it to an ispell file
I have a slightly older version of the jargon file as a plain word list
which includes inflected forms of the entries (ing, ed, plural form, etc).
You can find it at http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/. You still need to
convert it to an ispell hash file though.
Or you could just use Aspell. ;)
I also have SCOWL (http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/) which provides
much better word lists for spell checking English. In offers them in a
large variety of sizes. I use size 65 (+ a few special word lists) for
Aspell which I found to be about right as it includes almost all words
the average person will use (plus a couple added hacker terms). It is
much better than the ispell word lists. I have been trying to get AbiWord
to use them for there Ispell hash files but it seams like no one cares.
--- Kevin Atkinson kevina at users sourceforge net http://www.ibiblio.org/kevina/
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