Subject: Re: Specialised dictionaries [was Re: localization formats proposal]
From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jul 16 2001 - 22:41:56 CDT
--- Alan <horkana@tcd.ie> 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
Do we even support "cascading dictionaries"? We would
look in all of the chosen specialized dictionaries
first and finally the main language dictionary until
we find the word we're looking for. I'm not sure how
this would impact candidate lists either. Does ispell
already support this kind of thing? Does pspell?
Andrew Dunbar.
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