Documentation for spelling checkers

Linguistic documentation and research

• Lingustic Documentation for the proofing tools
• Research on proofing

Documentation for making the speller application

• General release procedure
• Release procedures for spellers
• The Speller Error Model
• Registering languages in LibreOffice
• Using Voikko with Hfst (turning a morphological analyser into a speller for LibreOffice on your own machine)

Our proofing tools

• North, Lule and South Saami proofing tools
• Inari and Skolt Saami and Kven proofing tools
• Beta versions of tools for various Uralic languages
• Adding hyphenation boundaries to manuscripts

Testing

• Test data: we are marking up gold-standard documents with a relatively simple, plain-text error markup. There are separate documents for each of the languages we have gold-standard documents for:
  • ISL - Icelandic
  • KAL - Greenlandic
  • SMA - South Sámi
  • SME - North Sámi
  • SMJ - Julev Sámi
• The test data is converted to xml and is stored in $GTFREE/stable/goldstandard/converted/ when proofread and checked, before that in $GTFREE/prestable/goldstandard/converted/
• You run a speller test using the following command:
  • new infra: cd $GTBIG/prooftesting && ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make - to run all tests for all languages, cd into one of the language subdirs and ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make to run the tests for just one language. After ./configure, you can even cd into one of the speller tool dirs, and run make there, to run the tests for one speller only.
  • old infra: cd $GTHOME/gt && make GTLANG=sma TESTTOOL=pl correct-test
• We also have a plan for creating Unit Tests for the PLX conversion used to build our MS Office tools

Other spellers & languages

This page has a list of free and commercial spellers for other Nordic languages.

Old documentation

2019

Mobile speller meetings 2019: 14-18.1

2013

Proofing-related projects spring 2013

• New MS Word speller for SME (first), SMJ and SMA.
• Nordplus-sprog-financed spelling error corpus and speller test project - Workshop 4-8.3.2013
• Updated Hunspell speller + TeX hyphenation for InDesign 5.5+
• Finalising the Voikko+Hfst speller solution for LibreOffice

PLX conversion meetings 2013: 4.1 , 14.1 , 15.1 , 16.1 , 17.1 , 22.1 , 24.1 , 29.1 , 30.1 , 5.2 , 6.2 , 13.6 ,

Husnpell conversion meetings 2013: 12.2 ,

2012

Meetings 2012: 2.3 , 2.4 , 19.4 , 15.5 , 23.8 , 27.9 , 30.10, 31.10, 01.11, 02.11, 05.11, 06.11, 07.11, 08.11, 09.11, 15.11, 19.11, 20.11, 21.11, 22.11, 26.11, 27.11, 29.11, 30.11, 3.12, 4.12, 6.12, 10.12, 11.12, 12.12, 13.12, 14.12, 17.12, 18.12, 19.12, 20.12, 21.12,

2011

Meetings 2011: 11.3, 17.3, 23.8, 6.9, 15.9, 3.11,

InDesign CS5.5-planar.