Re: grammar checker in AbiWord

On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 18:32 +0200, Daniel Naber wrote:
> On Saturday 17 September 2005 00:15, you wrote:
>
> > "link-grammar" as our grammar checking engine. We would love to get a
> > community of interested developers involved in expanding the
> > capabilities of link-grammar, so that other languages can be
> > grammar-checked, to imrpove it's speed and to make it possible to offer
> > suggestions.
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> thanks for your feedback.
>
> You might want to try my checker called LanguageTool
> (http://www.danielnaber.de/languagetool/). It finds only those errors
> which are explicitly coded as rules (not so many yet), but unlike link
> grammar it gives feedback on what exactly the problem is. I guess it's
> also easier to port to other languages as you don't need to write a
> complete grammar, just some error rules (either in XML or Java code).
>

Ah this is very interesting! Does it compile with gcj? Do you have or
plan to have an C/C++ API to access the functionality of your code?

I don't know Java but if it compiles with gcj and we can access it via
C/C++ API's we might be able to make use of it. I fully realise how hard
it will be to get link-grammar to offer suggestions.

Cheers

Martin

PS. I'm CCing the abiword-list. The rest of the development team will be
very interested in this.
 
> > By the way, did you know about AbiWord's Thearsarus?
>
> No, I just wanted to give it a try but there don't seem to be pre-compiled
> plugins for the development version and I currently lack the time to
> compile stuff myself.
>
> OpenOffice.org 2.0 will feature a WordNet-based thesaurus, i.e. it knows
> there can be more than one meaning per word (see attached screenshot).
> Such a thesaurus can easily be built, as there are APIs that access
> WordNet (see for example the script at http://www.danielnaber.de/wn2ooo/).
>
> Regards
> Daniel
>
Received on Mon Sep 19 03:24:58 2005