Announce: Hspell 1.1

[Dotan Cohen]

2009/12/31 Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il>:
> We are proud to present version 1.1 of Hspell, the free Hebrew spell-checker
> and morphological analyzer.
>
> You can find the new release in the project's homepage:
>        http://hspell.ivrix.org.il/
>
> Over three years have passed since our previous release. In that time, we
> continued to improve Hspell's vocabulary, and enlarged it by 900 more base
> words. Hspell is now closer to full coverage of the modern Hebrew language
> than it ever was.
>
> We've always been proud of Hspell's accuracy and its compliance with the
> spelling standard set by the Academy of the Hebrew Language. Nevertheless,
> we continuously get asked why Hspell spells certain words the way that it
> does. So, starting with this release, Hspell now includes a document which
> describes its spelling standard and discusses the numerous spelling questions
> which we had to answer while developing hspell.
> This document is still a work in progress, but even at its present form
> is already quite readable and, we hope, educational. It is available in
> Hspell's tarball, and also online:
>        http://hspell.ivrix.org.il/niqqudless.pdf
>
> Not only people who download Hspell from our site will benefit from this
> release. For several years now, only a minority of Hspell's users downloaded
> it from our site. Hspell has become the de-facto standard Hebrew spell-checker
> in the free software world and beyond; It is available in Linux distributions,
> in Aspell's and Hunspell's dictionary collections, and as OpenOffice and
> Firefox plugins. Even Google's hugely popular mail service, GMail, uses
> Hspell as its Hebrew spell-checker. We expect that the new Hspell release
> will soon propagate to all these applications, so that their users will
> also be able to enjoy the improved vocabulary of Hspell 1.1.
>
> Enjoy Hspell 1.1. No further releases are expected this year ;-)
>
> Nadav Har'El and Dan Kenigsberg.
>

Congratulations! I was under the impression that hspell development
was pretty much stalled indefinitely. This release is great news.

I have a long word list that can be added to hspell, mostly words such
as Ubuntu, Linux, and such. I do not speak "English/Russian/Greek as
Hebrew" and certainly would not add those words to a dictionary.


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Dotan Cohen

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