| Developer Credits: |
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| Special credit and thanks go to ispell's creator Geoff Kuenning. |
| Ispell affix compression code was used as the basis for the |
| affix code used in MySpell. Specifically Geoff's use of a |
| conds[] array that makes it easy to check if the conditions |
| required for a particular affix are present was very |
| ingenious! Kudos to Geoff. Very nicely done. |
| BTW: ispell is available under a BSD style license |
| from Geoff Kuennings ispell website: |
| http://www.cs.ucla.edu/ficus-members/geoff/ispell.html |
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| Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca> is the original |
| author and now maintainer of the MySpell codebase. Recent |
| additions include ngram support, and related character maps |
| to help improve and create suggestions for very poorly |
| spelled words. |
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| Please send any and all contributions or improvements |
| to him or to dev@lingucomponent.openoffice.org. |
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| David Einstein (Deinst@world.std.com) developed an almost |
| complete rewrite of MySpell for use by the Mozilla project. |
| David and I are now working on parallel development tracks |
| to help our respective projects (Mozilla and OpenOffice.org) |
| and we will maintain full affix file and dictionary file |
| compatibility and work on merging our versions of MySpell |
| back into a single tree. David has been a significant help |
| in improving MySpell. |
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| Németh László <nemethl@gyorsposta.hu> is the author of |
| the Hungarian dictionary and he developed and contributed |
| extensive changes to MySpell including ... |
| * code to support compound words in MySpell |
| * fixed numerous problems with encoding case conversion tables. |
| * designed/developed replacement tables to improve suggestions |
| * changed affix file parsing to trees to greatly speed loading |
| * removed the need for malloc/free pairs in suffix_check which |
| speeds up spell checking in suffix rich languages by 20% |
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| Davide Prina <davideprina@uahoo.com>, Giuseppe Modugno |
| <gppe.modugno@libero.it>, Gianluca Turconi <luctur@comeg.it> |
| all from the it_IT OpenOffice.org team performed an |
| extremely detailed code review of MySpell and generated |
| fixes for bugs, leaks, and speedup improvements. |
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| Simon Brouwer <simon.oo.o@xs4all.nl> for fixes and enhancements |
| that have greatly improved MySpell auggestions |
| * n-gram suggestions for an initcap word have an init. cap. |
| * fix for too many n-gram suggestions from specialized dictionary, |
| * fix for long suggestions rather than close ones in case of |
| dictionaries with many compound words (kompuuter) |
| * optionally disabling split-word suggestions (controlled |
| by NOSPLITSUGS line in affix file) |
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| Special Thanks to all others who have either contributed ideas or |
| testing for MySpell |
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| Thanks, |
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| Kevin Hendricks |
| kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca |
