Re: Integrating OpenMedSpel word list with Abiword's spell checker

Martin,

Thanks!

Both the features you have listed works.
Since Aspell already is built for spell check and suggestion, once the
word list is integrated, these are automatically taken care of.

Please check the screen shot attached showing the functional state.

I want to focus on taking this work to closure and possible extending
it as required.
I would love to know what Dom thinks abt this and hear his suggestions.

thanks & regards,

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Martin Sevior <msevior@gmail.com> wrote:
> HI Vidh,
>
> Dom is more the expert on openmedspell and spell checking than me.
> Would you like to comment Dom?
>
> At first glance this looks really impressive. I guess the next step
> would be to type in some words that almost match those in openmedspell
> and see if they are
> 1. underlined
> 2. Have the correct openmedspell word offered as a suggestion from the
> drop down list.
>
> Congrats on making such fast progress!
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Vidh <vidhu2366@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Martin,
>> Any thoughts on this?
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Vidh <vidhu2366@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Integrating OpenMedSpel word list with Abiword's spell checker
>>> ====================================================
>>>
>>> I tried doing random things related to Abiword in order to relate with
>>> source code.
>>> I got things moving on this GSOC idea:
>>> http://www.abisource.com/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2013#OpenMedSpel_plugin_for_AbiWord
>>>
>>> I am writing this mail to report what I have done related to this idea
>>> and to present some results.
>>>
>>> The goal is to make Abiword simultaneously spell check against
>>> OpenMedSpel and the default language dictionary.
>>> I have achieved the same result by making few changes to "enchant" and "aspell".
>>>
>>> Here are the steps I followed:
>>> ========================
>>> 1)Downloaded OpenMedSpel wordlist from:
>>> http://www.e-medtools.com/openmedspel100.zip
>>>
>>> This had the following files:
>>>
>>> vidhoon@vidhoonv:/usr/lib/aspell$ ls -l ~/Downloads/openmedspel100
>>> total 2968
>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 vidhoon vidhoon 607041 Feb 14 2007 OpenMedSpel 100.csv
>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 vidhoon vidhoon 558312 Mar 14 01:38 OpenMedSpel 100.txt
>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 vidhoon vidhoon 1169 Feb 14 2007 README_OpenMedSpel.txt
>>>
>>> 2) The txt file in the download had DOS characters in it. Hence, I had
>>> to do this:
>>>
>>> $dos2unix OpenMedSpel\ 100.txt OpenMedSpelunix.txt
>>>
>>> 3) Now I created a wordlist for aspell using the command below:
>>>
>>> $aspell --lang=en create master ./openmedspel.rws <
>>> ~/Downloads/openmedspel100/OpenMedSpel\ 100.txt
>>>
>>> (why I chose Aspell? - I could easily find relevant documentation to
>>> solve this problem)
>>> This link was really helpful:
>>> http://aspell.net/0.50-doc/man-html/5_Working.html#SECTION00640000000000000000
>>>
>>> 4) After this, I located Aspell in my local system and found it at:
>>> /usr/lib/aspell
>>>
>>> In this location I could find all "multi" dictionary files and "rws"
>>> lists included in them.
>>> I copied the openmedspel.rws list to this location.
>>>
>>> 5) I took the en_US.multi (since OpenMedSpel wordlist is also USA
>>> english) and found it to contain "en_US-wo_accents.multi"
>>> Then I opened en_US-wo_accents.multi and added the new wordlist
>>> created as shown below:
>>>
>>> vidhoon@vidhoonv:/usr/lib/aspell$ cat en_US-wo_accents.multi
>>> # Generated with Aspell Dicts "proc" script version 0.60.2
>>> add en-common.rws
>>> add en_US-wo_accents-only.rws
>>> add openmedspel.rws
>>>
>>> 6) I understood that Aspell is exercised through "enchant" by Abiword
>>> and located enchant in my local system:
>>> /usr/share/enchant
>>>
>>> 7) I found the "private" enchant.ordering file that determines the way
>>> spell checker and dictionaries are chosen for each language.
>>> I learned more about this file from this link:
>>> https://listman.redhat.com/archives/xdg-list/2003-July/msg00188.htmlhttp://accounts.unimelb.edu.au
>>>
>>> For time being, I hacked this file to place "aspell" ahead of
>>> "myspell" from the ordering so that aspell gets picked for en_US and
>>> this would contain OpenMedSpel wordlist also.
>>>
>>> vidhoon@vidhoonv:/usr/lib/aspell$ cat /usr/share/enchant/enchant.ordering
>>> *:aspell,myspell,ispell //-> order changed in this line
>>> fi:voikko,ispell,myspell,aspell
>>> fi_FI:voikko,ispell,myspell,aspell
>>> he:hspell,myspell
>>> he_IL:hspell,myspell
>>> yi:uspell
>>> tr:zemberek
>>> tr_TR:zemberek
>>>
>>> Now I can see that abiword spell check does not underline words from
>>> OpenMedSpel list which indicates that the goal is achieved. That is,
>>> Abiword does spell check for English US - normal words and OpenSpelMed
>>> words.
>>>
>>> I have attached screenshot of abiword illustrating this.
>>>
>>> So coming to the next steps,
>>> =======================
>>> 1)I would like to know how these steps involving enchant and aspell
>>> (purely! abiword need not even be compiled) can be transformed into an
>>> abiword plugin.
>>> 2)Have I achieved the required result in the right way?
>>>
>>> Or is it that a UI based option from Abiword for users to add their
>>> own word lists for a language dictionary is needed?
>>> I think this might fit in the "plugin" definition!
>>>
>>> Any help, suggestions and thoughts appreciated.
>>> thanks & regards!
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Vidhoon Viswanathan
>>> +91 7760711773
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Vidhoon Viswanathan
>> +91 7760711773

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