Caoimhin O Donnaile: Scottish Gaelic Spell Checker

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 16:23:27 +0100 (BST)
From: Caoimhin O Donnaile <caoimhin at smo.uhi.ac.uk>

>>  FYI - The Tiree High School developed a Scottish Gaelix spell checker
>>  and are selling via http://www.luchag-ink.org/
>
Well done the Tiree High School pupils on producing this useful
product.

However, their spell checker has only 7300 wordforms.  Roy Wentworth
has produced a Scottish Gaelic spell checker with 20300 wordforms
which has been freely available on the SMO website for over two years
now, along with several dictionaries, thanks to Roy's generosity:

    http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/wentworth/litreachadh/

Note that Roy's spell checker is not a true Gaelic spell checker but
rather a Gaelic supplement to the English spell-checking.  I am pretty
certain that the same will apply to the Tiree pupils' spell checker.
To produce a true Gaelic spell checker would require co-operation with
Microsoft.

Merging Roy's wordlist and the Tiree pupils' wordlist would no
doubt produce a wordlist which would be better than either.

Caoimhín

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