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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    [OT] Klebran - a free grammar-checker for Welsh
From:       Kevin Donnelly <kevin () dotmon ! com>
Date:       2007-02-15 16:35:07
Message-ID: 200702151635.07996.kevin () dotmon ! com
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This may be of interest to some on the list.

Kevin Scannell, who is on the Irish KDE team, is a specialist in natural 
language processing, and has written a grammar-checking engine called 
Gramadóir (http://borel.slu.edu/gramadoir).  Ports of this to various 
languages are in progress, one of them being Welsh.

I have just finished a web-interface to this, called Klebran ("clebran" means 
"prattle" in Welsh) - http://www.klebran.org.uk.  This flags up grammatical 
errors in different colours, checks spelling and offers alternatives, and 
gives meanings and part-of-speech info for all known words (by using Eurfa, 
the free dictionary for Welsh).

It is by no means perfect, but is the first ever free (GPL) grammar-checker in 
Welsh, so it is an important addition to the lexical toolset for free 
software users in Wales.

I would urge everyone, and especially those involved with minority languages, 
where resources may be scarce, to consider porting Gramadóir to your language 
if equivalent tools do not already exist.  It is a versatile engine, and will 
be able to be used as a plugin for the Elixir grammar-checking backend to the 
new Sonnet language framework being developed by Jacob Rideout for KDE4  
(http://blog.jacobrideout.net).

-- 
Pob hwyl / Best wishes

Kevin Donnelly

www.kyfieithu.co.uk - KDE yn Gymraeg
www.klebran.org.uk - Gwirydd gramadeg rhydd i'r Gymraeg
www.eurfa.org.uk - Geiriadur rhydd i'r Gymraeg
www.rhedadur.org.uk - Rhedeg berfau Cymraeg

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