[Lexicog] OpenOffice spellchecker?

Greg Aumann Greg_Aumann at SIL.ORG
Sat Nov 1 01:48:47 UTC 2008


Mike Maxwell wrote:
> lengosi wrote:
>> I wonder if anyone here has experience creating a spellchecker for a
>> minority language for the OpenOffice.org suite?
> 
> A lot depends on the kind of language: does it have lots of inflectional
> morphology? Free compounding? Those would make it hard to create a
> spell checker without a morphological parser.
> 
The Openoffice spellchecker is called Hunspell and it definitely has a
reasonable amount of morphological parsing. See
http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/



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