MosJan Posted June 20, 2009 Report Share Posted June 20, 2009 New Armenian Spell Check Program 97% Accurate [ 2009/06/20 | 00:07 ] important technologies “Armenian PowerSpell 2009″ is an Armenian spell check program that its creator, Arman Boshyan, claims to be able to recognize 97% of the words currently in usage in Armenian. It was displayed at today’s DigiTec Business 2009 exhibition. The program, distributed by the company “Partev-Papyan”, makes corrections according to grammatical, punctuation and rules of syntax. It also includes a dictionary of abbreviations and offers translations of non-Armenian words. Mr. Boshyan told “Hetq” that, “We are dealing with one of the most difficult languages in the world. Word usage forms are so numerous that the program isn’t merely based on a dictionary. The program actually analyses the most correct usage form for each word in a given context.” Users of the program can add words that the program currently doesn’t include to the dictionary. This way, the 3% of unrecognized words is being constantly whittled down. Up till 2009, the program’s prototype had been distributed under the table. The new licensed version went on the market on March 1. The number of subscribers has reached 300; mostly government agencies and private companies. A yearly subscription cost 9,000 drams. Mr. Boshyan told “Hetq” that those found to using pirated copies of the program would be warned. If those violating licensing laws fail to stop using pirated copies they will be taken to court and sued to the tune of 900,000 drams. The program’s creator joked, “For us, the use of pirated copies is more to our benefit than licensed copies.” Two instances of pirate copies being used have already been uncovered. Fortunately, before a suit against them was filed, the offenders contacted “Armenian PowerSpell” and said they wanted to purchase legal versions of the program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Arpa Posted June 20, 2009 Report Share Posted June 20, 2009 (edited) http://soft.areg.biz/downloads/poweroffice/download_ps_e.htm This is a total fiasco How do you spell Ուղղագրութիւն or Ուղագրություն Note that I am not advocating one spelling against the other. But, can we all get together and agree on ONE system? How many "spellchecks" do the English have, where 6 billion people speak and write in? A spellcheck for the Armenian language that less than 2 million speak? How will this correct my and Johanes'orthography? Does this mean that the system will correct when one writes բարեւbarew բարէվ barev պարեվ parev փառեվ pharev and a million of other ways. Let me repeat. This is useless until we come together and have ONE spelling system. I will not advocate which, but ONE. Edited June 21, 2009 by Արփա Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted June 27, 2009 Report Share Posted June 27, 2009 This is a total fiasco How do you spell Ուղղագրութիւն or Ուղագրություն Note that I am not advocating one spelling against the other. But, can we all get together and agree on ONE system? How many "spellchecks" do the English have, where 6 billion people speak and write in? A spellcheck for the Armenian language that less than 2 million speak? How will this correct my and Johanes'orthography? Does this mean that the system will correct when one writes բարեւbarew բարէվ barev պարեվ parev փառեվ pharev and a million of other ways. Let me repeat. This is useless until we come together and have ONE spelling system. I will not advocate which, but ONE. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have a cousin who has worked more than 6 years to resolve this problem, he knows armenian very well, from Armenia and from diaspora. He has a website, difficult for me to understand, I give you the web site: http://www.arm-in-unicode.com/ He has written in French, English and Armenian Jean.ayvasian@wanadoo.fr He knows me by my armenian name; Iskouhi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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