Using Voikko With Hfst

For the languages in the gt directory:

cd $GTHOME/gt/
make GTLANG=sme hfstspellers

For other languages:

make -f Makefile.hfst

This may take some time. Installation is done automatically as part of the make commands. When the making is finished you should have a working Voikko speller for sme , based on our hfst transducer!

The resulting spellers are available both for OpenOffice/LibreOffice, and for command-line tools. The command-line tools and the test bench require that you also build and install libvoikko.

This can be done with a simple installation of an extesion. The steps are as follows:

• download one of these:
  • A Greenlandic speller- alpha quality, 51 Mb
  • The default Finnish Voikko with HFST support- 3 Mb
  • If you would like to test Voikko+HFST for OOo/LOffice on Windows or Linux, see this pageand download the relevant .oxt file

• Installer tillegget i OpenOffice / LibreOffice

• compile your hfst spellers as described on the top of the page
• ensure they are active in OpenOffice/LibreOffice (see above)

That's it! Our own transducers directly applied as spellers!

CAVEATS!!!

This is PRE-Alpha quality!!!

Både hfst som ein del av Voikko og hfst-transdusarane våre er langt i frå ferdige! Det kan finnast problem, og det er kjende feil. Alle lingvistiske problem skal meldast til Bugzilla (eller rettast direkte), alle tekniske feil med Voikko, HFST eller OOo-tillegget skal meldast til Sjur eller til Libvoikko-e-postlista (http://lists.puimula.org/listinfo/libvoikko).

Known errors:

• OOo-tillegget fungerer BERRE på snøleoparden, dvs MacOS X 10.6. Det er *ikkje* støtte for 10.5 (enno i alle fall)
• hfst-stavekontrollen er *deskriptiv*, ikkje normativ - det vil altså vera ein god del ikkje-normativt som blir akseptert
• hfst-stavekontrollen har ein svært rudimentær forslagsmekanisme - oftast vil det ikkje koma forslag i det heile, og når dei kjem er den korrekte rettinga nesten aldri fyrste forslag

Kjende forbetringar i høve til Hunspellstavekontrollane våre:

• samansetjingar fungerer! (men overgenererer sidan transduseren er deskriptiv)

This requires libvoikko. The commands are:

cd $GTHOME/gt
make <TESTTYPE> GTLANG=sme TESTTOOL=vkhfst

where <TESTTYPE> is one of:

• regression-test
• typos-test
• wordtype-test
• baseform-test
• correct-test

or spelltest to run them all.

This also requires libvoikko. Just type:

voikkospell -s -d se

See man voikkospell for more details and options.

Not yet functional!

Eventually, we will get VoikkoSpellServicewith support for HFST on our computers, which will integrate the voikko speller in the system-wide speller for all languages we compile and install. But at the moment only a single language can be installed, and only in a specific location.