[libvoikko] [PATCH-3-5] fdo#35270 - kill first-use grammar checker freeze ...

[Kevin Brubeck Unhammer]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.devel as well.

(CC-ing the libvoikko list.)

"Olivier R." <olivier.noreply at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Daniel,
>
>
> Daniel Naber-2 wrote
>> 
>>> If Lightproof could use LT lexicons, that could be a temporary solution,
>>> but maybe memory-consuming, as you would have a dictionary for spell
>>> checking and a lexicon for grammar checking.
>> 
>> I have never tried that but I think the finite state machine used
>> internally 
>> by LT is quite memory-friendly.
>> 
>
> I had a look in the old LanguageTool written in Python.
> It uses the library cPickle (renamed now pickle). I never used it. Resource
> intensive, right ?
>
> In the Java code, there is a fsa library...
> Not sure there is the same thing in Python. Looking for something similar…

There are quite a lot of C++ FST's libraries too. Voikko
(http://voikko.sourceforge.net/) may be of interest, as it is currently
used in the LibreOffice spell checker for Finnish. It has several
possible FST backends:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/voikko/wiki/libvoikko/SupportedLanguages


best regards,
Kevin Brubeck Unhammer