[Student-projects] GSOC'14: Spell checker

[Santhosh Thottingal]

Hi Shafeeq,

http://wiki.smc.org.in/SoC/2014/Project_ideas#A_spell_checker_for_Indic_language_that_understands_inflectionshas
a link to all my conversation with the author of Hunspell in the past.
Please check it out.

Please check this mail too
http://lists.smc.org.in/pipermail/student-projects-smc.org.in/2014-March/000056.html

On Thursday, March 6, 2014, Shafeeq K <shafeeq94 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm Shafeeq, a second year CSE student from NSS College of
> Engineering, Palakkad.
> I am interested in this year's GSOC project "A spell checker for Indic
> language that understands inflections". I've been reading and doing a
> little of homework for this project, as suggested by the mentor.
>
> I couldn't find any affix rules for malayalam in the corresponding
> affix file. Does that mean currently we rely only on the collection of
> words for spell check?
>

Yes, that is right. Two links about a related discussion.

   - ചരിത്രത്തെ വീണ്ടെടുക്കുക <http://www.chintha.com/node/3003>: തര്‍ജ്ജനി
   മാസികയില്‍ സോമനാഥന്‍ . പി എഴുതിയ ലേഖനം
   - വേണം നമുക്ക് ഏകീകൃതമായ ഒരെഴുത്തുരീതി <http://chintha.com/node/2967>:
   തര്‍ജ്ജനി മാസികയില്‍ സോമനാഥന്‍ . പി എഴുതിയ ലേഖനം




>
> Hunspell manual suggests only two-fold suffix stripping. Since it was
> mentioned that Indic languages might require as much as 5 levels of
> stripping, is Hunspell the way forward? I saw an experimental
> indic-stemmer in SILPA. Couldn't we expand it to handle the multilevel
> suffix stripping?
>


Please check
http://wiki.smc.org.in/User:%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%B7%E0%B5%8D/HunspellConversation




> About the agglutinations of words and suffixes, I came across a paper
> while reading about it [1]. Could you please suggest some other
> documents as well?
>
> Thanks.
>
> [1]: http://aclweb.org/anthology//O/O12/O12-1028.pdf
>
>
> Shafeeq
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