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- Message-ID: <NOTABENE%92121919175966@TAUNIVM>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 10:45:00 CST
- Sender: Nota Bene List <NOTABENE@TAUNIVM.BITNET>
- From: Michael Ossar <MLO@KSUVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: separators, NB, Orbis
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene
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- On Sat, 19 Dec 92, J-P Takala, University of Helsinki, writes:
- > 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
-
- I don't know if Finnish presents the same difficulties to spell checkers that
- German does (chief among them the propensity for combining existing words to
- form new, perfectly valid and widely-used compound nouns, which, however, are
- often not found in dictionaries), but if it does, I very much hope that the
- folks who worked out the algorithms for Finnish will try to apply them to
- German and market it commercially. The German spell checker that Microlytics
- developed for NB is not quite useless, but nearly so because it doesn't handle
- compound nouns efficiently. If the Finnish solution could be applied to
- German too, it could be a huge commercial success, given the size of the
- market. Maybe the idea could be licensed to Microlytics.
- Michael Ossar
- Kansas State University
-