NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/bit/listserv/notabene/3088

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From:         "J-P Takala, University of Helsinki,
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Subject:      Re: separators, NB, Orbis
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Mervyn (and anyone else interested),

   There is probably a (fruitful) misunderstanding here.  I was not
talking about hyphens or other potential separators in the context
of spell-checking.  It was about how Orbis (cuurently) defines what
a word is.  And there were some unexpected phenomena here, some of
which I think are improvements, some probably just temporary problems.
No, Mervyn, your separator table contained hyphen, ascii 45.  But having
that in NBCUSTOM.SET does not change the way Orbis handles hyphens.

I don't think I was telling you that you can spell-check Finnish,
but since you brought it up, and it might be of interest to others:
yes, you can spell-check Finnish.  Its been possible for a number
of years now, and required some hard theoretical linguistic work
which could be embodied in computer algorithms.  I've been told that
the group who made this (mainly Finns) have been able to apply the
general ideas also to other inflective languages.  I've used a
Finnish language (standalone) spell-checker (which also checks some
aspects of grammar, rather like Grammatik IV..V) since 1990.
Unfortunately, it cannot cope with NBs conditional hyphens or deltas.
(It knows WP, Word and Ascii).  Also - dare I say it - WP has for some
time now come with a Finnish spell-checker which works pretty well.

j-p takala