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[Rajesh R. <raj...@ya...>]

Dear Ratlami jee,

Awesome work Ratlami jee! Thanks a lot!

>________________________________

> From: ""Ravishankar Shrivastava (रवि-रतलामी)"" <rav...@gm...>
>To: Localization <ind...@li...> 
>Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 6:14 PM
>Subject: [Indlinux-hindi] About Hindi spellcheck wordlist
> 
>Hi,
>Now nearly most FLOSS applications now support Hindi spell-check either 
>through addin (libre-office, firefox etc.) or through aspell-hunspell 
>(Gedit etc.), need for a comprehensive collection of Correct Hindi word 
>list is essential.
>
>Whatever wordlists currently available were not adequate, contains many 
>many wrong words and therefore remain almost meaningless in providing 
>usable spellcheck on any document.
>
>In recent past, there was a proposal to financially support a project of 
>collection of manually checked 2,00,000 Hindi words and preparation of 
>plugins etc. but that project was heldup for one or other reason.
>
>Recently, on Hindi week, a collection of nearly 1,60,000 (download link 
>is given here - http://raviratlami.blogspot.in/2012/10/blog-post.html) 
>Hindi word list (Beta version, with about 90% correct words) was 
>released for use in FLOSS Hindi spellcheck. For this wordlist, Linguist 
>Shri Arvind Kumar (Author of the Hindi's one and only thesaurus) had 
>generously contributed his collection of Hindi Wordlist error-free data, 
>without charging any fee. But this alone word list is not sufficient in 
>many ways as Hindi words can have many formations - such as for मुस्कान 
>(smile) - you can see below (and it is still incomplete) -
>


Say bahut-bahut shukriya to Arvind jee! Open Source community will be always grateful to Arvind jee!


>मुस्करा
>मुस्कराएगी
>मुस्कराकर
>मुस्कराता
>मुस्कराती
>मुस्कराते
>मुस्कराना
>मुस्कराने
>मुस्कराया
>मुस्कराहट
>मुस्काया
>मुस्काए
>मुस्काता
>मुस्काती
>मुस्कान
>मुस्काना
>मुस्कानि
>मुस्कुरा
>मुस्कुराए
>मुस्कुराकर
>मुस्कुराता
>मुस्कुराते
>मुस्कुराने
>मुस्कुराहट
>


I can only :-)...but for the time being it is great contribution!


>Further, a while ago, we had initiated a web based work (through google 
>doc distributing chunks of word list to some individuals) to manually 
>spellcheck the collected wordlist. But that initiation had failed again.
>
>So, now the only option remain with us is that if we can get some kind 
>of financial support, then we can manually spellcheck the collected 
>data, and add various forms of Hindi words by hiring commercial Hindi 
>translators and reviewers. There is a group called Hindi-Translator 
>group (http://groups.google.com/group/hindianuvaadak/topics) and 
>according to the group, minimum Re. 1.00 per word is the rate for such 
>work. So, if we can generate this kind of fund (about 2 lakh) through 
>sponsership or through some projects etc., then maybe we can collect 
>comprehensive, correct Hindi wordlist (about 2 lakh most used words) for 
>use in our spellcheck programs and this data will then be further used 
>for standardization of Hindi spellcheck (using only standard Hindi words).
>
>I am writing this since some of my friends have shown keen interest in 
>contributing generating fund for this long pending work.
>
>And, I am writing this in my tooti-footi English to reach wider 
>audience, so forgive me :)
>

I am not afraid of tooti-footi angreji :-)...हिन्दी सही रहे उसका इंतज़ाम तो आपने कर दिया है :-)
    
Regards,

Rajesh