On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 19:00:28 +0000
> From: Tomas Frydrych <tomasfrydrych@yahoo.co.uk>
> To: abidevlist <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
> Subject: 2.4 feature list: Grammar Checker
>
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> I have two questions regarding the grammar checker:
>
> (a) are there any Open Source grammar checkers or at least public APIs
> for grammar checkers on the platforms we support? My concern is that we
> do not invest time into something that in the foreseeable future is not
> going to be usable.
The Link Grammar checker does now have a suitable license and has done for
over a year and has been mentioned onlist and I'm reasonably sure this was
noted in bugzilla too.
> (b) is it possible to implement a good generic grammar-checker framework
> for someone who is not familar with grammar-checking technologies?
I recall Dom did some work to make the spellchecking architecture more
generic with a view to needing a grammar checker at some point in the
future but I don't know how far in that direction he went if at all.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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Received on Sun Jan 9 00:57:17 2005
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