Re: [libreoffice-users] Would it be "OK" to have an Urban dictionary words. . .

On 01/12/2013 11:35 AM, Jay Lozier wrote:
> On 01/12/2013 11:04 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
> > I was looking at some articles and one mentioned the "Urban 
> > Dictionary".  This seems to be a list of "English Language Slang" 
> > words and phrases.
> >
> > Would that be something that would be useful as a add on dictionary 
> > to LibreOffice?
> >
> > It would not take too much of an effort to make the dictionary, just 
> > some days of time to get the word into a list.
> >
> > So, would it be something that English users of LO use or would it be 
> > just a novelty?
> >
> > For abit of time, that dictionary was on the IBM Watson 
> > supercomputer, but it kept using too much "street language" in 
> > improper moments.  Since LO is for kids to adults, students to 
> > business people, well there are a lot of different types and style of 
> > "speech" out there.
> Interesting idea.
>
> I personally do not need an "Urban Dictionary" but the concept of a 
> specialist (technical/medical/scientific) dictionary is appealing. In 
> either case I would include it as an optional extension for the user 
> to install.

It will be an .oxt extension/dictionary. It will be listed as an add on 
option in the extension center so it is very optional.

As for specialist dictionaries, well I been wanting to create science, 
mathematics, and other specialized word lists that will end up in their 
very own dictionaries.  It would be great to have dictionaries that have 
the correctly spelled words used in the various science and 
technicalcourses that are taught in the universities and are part of the 
field of work for these scienceand technical people.  Would be good to 
have them for our Educational users.

All I need is the source documents that are professionally done or 
published, that do not cost me any money to buy or join like 
professional journals do.

But the difficulty to is finding the correctly spelled words online or 
in a downloadable document.  I have created a Python script that takes 
HTML files and converts them into a word list [set of lists].  I use the 
same scriptto take any text file and make it into a set of lists of 
words.  With online sources, I can cut/paste the text into LO and then 
make the word lists.  It can be easy or hard, depending on how much 
trouble it is to deal with the original online text.

Any professionally created document for their field of study should have 
a 99.9999% of the words correctly spelled.  One error in a 100,000words 
or so is a good statistic. I have found misspelled words in printed text 
books and other documents like that.  Noone is perfectthough.





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