KDE for dyslectic people

[Gerry Gavigan]

This issue is not dictionary related but one of natural language and 
semiotics.   (I used to run the UK research programme in Speech and Natural 
Language Technologies) 

Unfortunately diagnosis is much easier than a solution.

I believe that there are many public domain natural language tools out there 
but the challenge is one of "data,data,data", dictionary corpuses are huge. 
The searching and parsing tools are a combination of statistical and rule 
based techniques but (used to) culminate in hand crafting.

I am not sure that the situation has changed much (refer to any grammar tool) 

It is likely that the next, best solution will arise in a KDE-style bazaar 
rather than a proprietary cathedral - but it is a big job.



            

  


On Tuesday 07 September 2004 12:40, Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote:
> On September 7, 2004 05:30 am, Onno Timmerman wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I don't know if this is the right spot to ask this. But maybe some KDE
> > developer could look in the the following suggestion.
> >
> > I'm a dyslectic person: and that means I got diffuculties with correct
> > spelling but also making correct sentences. However many people who
> > correct my papers notice I always make the same flaws. Now would it be
> > possible to make a gramer correction on basis of these returning flaws.
> > There should be some sort of private rule book where the computer checks
> > automaticaly specifical for the flaws a dyslectic person makes. I should
> > be able to configure the gramer checker in to my needs.
> > Notice, that every dyslectic person makes some specifik mistakes. He/she
> > would then be able to fine tune the gramer correction.
>
> Doesn't it already exist specific dictionaries for dyslectic, as this
> condition depends on the language? My daughter had problems in French but
> never had any in English when we moved to England.
> If these dictionaries don't exist the task will be hard...
>
> A spell-check calling that special dictionary should then be easy.
>
> Anne-Marie
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