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From: kleonard@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM (Ken Leonard)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Need an English parser
Message-ID: <243@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM>
Date: 13 Jun 89 13:31:52 GMT
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* In an article of <8 Jun 89 19:35:04 GMT>, rusin@ux1.lbl.gov (David J Rusin) writes: 
* 
*  >OK, I've had enough. I use a word processor to make my letters look 
*  >pretty, a spell-checker to make sure they only have real words in them, 
*  >and ... 
* 
* If you find one please let me know.  My friend is willing to teach me how to  
* ... 
Ahhhhh FOoooeeeeyyyyy... 
What we really need is a spell-checker which will handle: 
   1) acronyms and proper names with arbitrary, absolutely required 
      capitalization and/or slashes-dashes; 
   2) forbidden words, i.e. those in the furnished dictionary which the user 
      chooses to exclude; 
   3) suspicious words, i.e. those in the furnished dictionary which the user 
      desires to permit only in limited circumstances; 
   4) global (i.e. per file system), group (i.e. per directory branch) and 
      document (i.e. per single document) dictionaries in hierarchy; 
   5) compound terms as if single words, hyphenated or slashed or not. 
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Regardz, 
Ken