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[Elanjelian Venugopal <tamiliam@xxxxxxxxx>]

வணக்கம்.

2009/2/1 S.Selvam Siva <s.selvamsiva@xxxxxxxxx>:

Thank for your response.I am basically an engineering final year
> student(CSE). I initially wanted to improve aspell tamil spell checking,But
> i did not now how to implement tamil grammar with aspell and include GUI
> suppport.
>
> At that time i came to know about malayalam spell checker as a gedit plugin
> developed by thottilingam with python.So i decided to develop the spell
> checking engine (tamilspell.py) which can be reused for any editors. As a
> first step i integrated with gedit. Next will be open office.
>

Open Office, I understand, is now using hunspell. Could the engine you are
working on be converted to hunspell spellchecking extension?

I am eager to know, whether you have added any grammatical rules to aspell
> and any hint on developing aspell for improved tamil spell check.
>

I'm not a computer scientist; however, I did try to develop an affix file
then, but support for unicode and complex script was not provided by
aspel/Ispell/Myspell, so it didn't work. I think all that is now past.

Anyway, from what I remember, it wouldn't be too difficult -- though really
tedious -- to develop the necessary rules. At the least, we could develop
the easier, more common rules first. I could organise an effort, if you
could look at the technical aspects of the challenge. By the way, how does
the engine you are developing handles affix rules? See:
http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/affix.readme

Note:We have collected nearly 30,000 tamil words(includiing aspell's
> 14,000),extracted from tamil web page.
>

Nice! You are using one of the corpus catchers available, I presume...