OT: language variant subtag en-cutspell
John D. Burger
john at mitre.org
Fri Jun 23 18:13:33 CEST 2006
Joze Fabcic wrote:
> - A standalone bidirectional converter between traditional orthography
> and a simplified one.
This is almost certainly doomed, due to homographs/heteronyms and other
ambiguities. For example, I believe that Cut Spelling would replace
"desert" with "desrt" only when used as a noun, due to the difference
in pronunciation. I do not know the specifics of your proposed system,
but as a researcher in natural language processing, I strongly suspect
that your converter would require AI-complete text understanding in
order to perform with acceptable accuracy.
But everyone needs a hobby. :)
- John D. Burger
MITRE
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