[iks-community] Spelling corrections as semantic enhancements or annotations ?

[Olivier Grisel]

On 3 July 2010 10:00, Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz at ping.de> wrote:
> I am thinking about the idea to use FISE and the Semantic Editor to
> suggest spelling corrections and provide an interface for them.
>
> A semantic engine for FISE would be required which looks for spelling
> mistakes and makes suggestions for corrections. Something similar could
> be done for grammar, style etc.
>
> Maybe OpenOffice.org somehow can be used for that.

I would suggest not to try to embed OpenOffice on the server side if
there is anyway to avoid it :) Maybe one could start with using
opensource spell checker already written in java such as:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/jazzy/files/ (looks a bit old, I
don't know about the quality / dictionary support / ...).

As for the grammar checker the following java LGPL project sounds like
a perfect match: http://www.languagetool.org/ (try the java webstart
demo).

I think language-tool engine for fise is a really good idea and should
be quite easy to get right. Do you want to work on this? If so you
should start by opening an issue on the tracker:
http://code.google.com/p/iks-project/issues/list

-- 
Olivier