fyi... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nick Demou <ndemou [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> Date: 2010/2/3 Subject: [Elspell] google and spellchecking To: elspell [ at ] student [ dot ] math [ dot ] upatras [ dot ] gr το έχει δει κανείς αυτό? http://blog.chromium.org/2009/02/spell-check-dictionary-improvements.html The Hunspell dictionary maintainers have done a great job creating high-quality dictionaries that anybody can use, but one of the problems with any dictionary is that there are inevitably omissions, especially as new words appear or proper nouns come into common use. We at Google are in a good position to use our knowledge of the internet to identify and fix some of these omissions. The Google translation team used their language models to generate a sorted list of the most popular words in each language. This was cross-checked with the Hunspell dictionaries to generate a list of the top 1000 words not present in each dictionary. This list includes many popular words, but also common misspellings. To remove these words, each list was reviewed by specialist in that language. Generally, we tried to keep proper nouns and even foreign words as long as they were in common usage. BTW με έκανε να σκέφτομαι τι θα μπορούσαμε να πετύχουμε αν η Google μας έστελνε μια λίστα κάθε 6 μήνες με όλες τις λέξεις που ο ορθογράφος τους θεωρεί λάθος αλλά ο χρήστης επιλέγει ignore... -- "The software is licensed, not sold" -- MICROSOFT LICENSE TERMS -- Elspell mailing list Elspell [ at ] lists [ dot ] math [ dot ] upatras [ dot ] gr http://lists.math.upatras.gr/mailman/listinfo/elspell -- - Μπέρτραντ Ράσελ:" Πώς να ζούμε με την αβεβαιότητα, χωρίς ωστόσο να παραλύουμε από το δισταγμό, ίσως είναι το κύριο πράγμα που μπορεί να μας διδάξει η φιλοσοφία". - http://karounos.gr/blog/