Day 2: Spellchecker notes

Spellcheckers (using Hunspell engine)

paa.kwesi compiling league table of spellcheckers
Tunde looking to work on Igbo spellchecker
Tunde suggests creating a spellchecker how-to

outline of manual
explanation of how Hunspell works
San-James asking for a checklist of what to do in order to create a spellchecker?
work with linguist or get data from someone with linguistic

information on a language

large amount of text as corpus
- write tools to crawl the web as a way to collect text for corpus
  - corpus catcher from ANLoc
  - corpus crawler from Kevin Scannell
generate word list from text
Taha mentions there are about 400 stop-words or prepositions

which you can consider to include in wordlist for Hunspell

make conjugator as a tool to automatically generate words for verbs in order to add to word list.

Hunspell code complicated. includes language-specific code
Aspell more structured, but not as advanced or as widely used

as Hunspell

Tunde mentions spelt, which is a tool by ANLoc to help automatically recognise patterns in words
paa.kwesi points out that for spellcheckers that already exist in

Hunspell, they could be included in applications that are still being localised