Illume dictionary for Dutch (Nederlands)

Pander pander at users.sourceforge.net
Thu Nov 20 10:55:02 CET 2008


Small correction to my text:

"Note that more characters" must be "Note that certain special characters
are in GSM 03.38 which are not in extended ASCII"


Nevertheless, one complete utf-8 dictionary could be used by most
applications, also SMS. The conversion I do for GSM 03.38 could also be
done later just before sending the SMS.

On Thu, November 20, 2008 10:44, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> I have no idea... I might only make a new version with utf-8 encoded
> characters. :)
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:40:46AM +0100, Pander wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I intent to generate the following:
>> - a full list utf-8 (for 8 bit SMS and regular use, default)
>> - b full list utf-8 GSM 03.38[1] (for 7 bit SMS)
>> - c truncated list utf-8 (for 8 bit SMS and regular use)
>> - d truncated list utf-8 GSM 03.38[1] (for 7 bit SMS, default)
>>
>> [1] These utf-8 characters in this list are within the 7-bit range of
>> GSM
>> 03.38, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_message_service#GSM Note
>> that more characters
>>
>> a and b will both have 250,000 words
>> b will be conversion, remapping and normalisation of a
>> c and d are truncations and normalisation of respectively a and b
>>
>> For utf-16, a simple conversion of the utf-8 files can be used, but I'll
>> leave this for now. This could result in two extra files.
>>
>> Note that nor extended nor non-extended ASCII is available. Is this
>> desirable? This can result in four extra files.
>>
>> So, I can come up with 10 different files. Which are according to you
>> the
>> most useful?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Pander
>>
>> On Thu, November 20, 2008 08:58, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
>> > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:02:41AM +0100, "Marco Trevisan
>> (Treviño)"
>> > wrote:
>> >> Pander wrote:
>> >> > Of course this particular word list is very long and contains about
>> >> > 250,000 words and has a typical loooong tail. Many words or
>> >> compositions
>> >> > or occur seldom in average day use.
>> >> >
>> >> > What would be a good cut off point in number of words, also in
>> terms
>> >> of
>> >> > performance?
>> >> >
>> >> > The Portuguese list contains 56,609 words. Is this workable? How
>> many
>> >> > does the English contain?
>> >>
>> >> The Italian one can count also 500'000 words (to be short), but I can
>> >> get a well working dictionary only using a smaller one (with about
>> >> 150'000 words that I've taken counting its google popularity).
>> >>
>> >> Btw I've written more complete posts about this on the list...
>> >
>> > Well, since my basis was based on a million words taken from the most
>> > printed daily newspaper in Portugal (I didn't count but still I
>> removed
>> > a lot of non words like numbers, etc...) already with frequency data,
>> my
>> > job was so much easier... :)
>> >
>> > As for writing SMS/text messages... I haven't found yet a word that
>> > wasn't there (in fact my problem is that it so often is the first of
>> > several matches so I have to use the menu on the left) but I must
>> > confess to not be one of those whose primary use of the phone is
>> > SMS/text!
>> >
>> > Rui
>> >
>> > --
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