Please help teach Cinnamon Writer how to spell

Hi All

I have been able to port a small and efficient spell checker to be used in the next version of Cinnamon Writer to be released soon. To be of any real use I will however need to train it in different languages and make dictionaries for each separate language. Right now I have a nice functioning American English spell checking dictionary, but I would really like to be able to offer spell check capability for all languages spoken by Amiga users.

For each language I will need an exhaustive list of words. Preferable in a plain text document with one word per line. I know that I should be able to find these lists with google and some hard work myself. But I have learned, that these lists are so much easier to find when you search for it in your native tongue.

This is where I need your help. If you would like to help and if know of such a list, please send it to me at projects@desler.be or link it in this thread. Please check the word list before submitting to ensure that it is of high quality and that is extensive (more than 100.000 words). Please also make sure that the word list is covered by a license that allows it to be spread (Guess any form of GPL can be fulfilled). When ever I get a new word list I will try to update this thread so people can see the progress

After releasing the new version of CW, I plan to share the code for the spell checker so if you want to add spell check capabilities to your program, you can easily do that with this code. You will also be free to use any of the dictionary files that I will compile

Dictionaries found so far:

English
Danish
Swedish
German
Spanish

Search for "SPELL" on os4depot.

There is an ispell library there and lots of language support.

Good work Desler!

@Gregthecanuk

Ispell is great, but as far as I know under GPL. The spell checker I have ported can be incorporated into any project without any regards to the license. I know that there is an Arexx port, but I would rather like to avoid the overhead

Unfortunately I cannot use the Ispell dictionaries as they have been compiled for Ispell

@desler

I ported ISpell to AOS4 back in the days, and compiled most (if not all) of the dictionaries present of OS4Depot. If you wish I can provide you with the dictionaries sources (must check the licence though).

@Abalaban
That would be a tremendous help if possible ! Thank you !

I'll do that during the week-end privately at the email above.

@desler

Link was a shareware file (removed)

Keep on desler, i wanna try a new beta soon

Hi

I have such a list for catalonian language. As far as I know it is under GPL. If you are interested, this is the link:

http://www.softcatala.org/wiki/Projec ... eaci.C3.B3_de_les_llistes

it is a project to create a free catalan spell checker for all platforms.

I just took the words and I'm creating the plain text file.

Let me know if you are interested in adding catalan as a language in your program.

Thanks

@carrera_231cv

Perfect! I am very interested in adding a catalonian dictionary. Thank you :)

@desler

Yeah, 1.2 Million german words
http://sourceforge.net/projects/germandict/

@Raziel

-Bum- Good work !! Thanks :)

@desler

Out of curiosity, how does your wordlist-based spellchecker handle words that are only correctly spelled if they begin with a capital letter? Such as the names of months and days in English.

@Trixie
If properly trained, i.e. source states Monday and not monday it will see the difference

@desler

Right. PageStream, I think, uses the wordlist in the same way. The words in the list are normally all lowercase; if they begin with an uppercased letter, the word must be written like that, otherwise it's misspelled.

And Spanish?
Y Español?

Spanish/español

http://lemarios.olea.org/

Version 2010-10-17, 88449 palabras (words)
http://www.teoruiz.com/lemario/lemario-20101017.txt.gz

It says its free to use, so CW could use it.

@Jabirulo
Good work! Spanish added to the list. Thank you