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Re: [aspell-devel] Word lists that use Affix
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Kevin Atkinson |
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Re: [aspell-devel] Word lists that use Affix |
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Tue, 07 Dec 2004 12:02:44 -0700 (MST) |
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Gary Setter wrote:
> <snip>
> Hi Kevin, Jose,
>
> Again, thanks for pointing out the compression utilities I
> already had. I ended up using munch.
> Munch expects the number of words on the first line. It also put
> the number of items after compression on the first line. Since
> aspell does not expect the word count, it got in the way. I
> modified munch to take a word count as a command line argument.
> Do you think such as change is worthy of a patch?
No. As that program is going to disappear since the Aspell utility
will have a munch-list command starting with Aspell 0.60.2.
> Also, making the compressed list was just one step in making the
> minimum dictionary that fit my vocabulary.
> The steps included,
> making a representative sample,
> searching the word lists,
> affix compression,
> combining lists,
> compiling into rws,
> making the multi file.
>
> I'm not sure about the combining lists step. Looking at the code,
> it seemed to me that making one rws file would be more efficent.
> But I'm not so sure. Any ideas on this?
Yes the fewer compiled dictionaries the better.
> Should there be an application for managing the process for the
> user?
Maybe.
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