From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 25 3: 1:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.ms-agentur.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AE9937B42B for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 03:01:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.ms-agentur.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id MAA22073; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:10:45 +0200 Message-ID: <3BB055DA.20600@i-clue.de> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:00:58 +0200 From: Christoph Sold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:0.9.4+) Gecko/20010916 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: admin@twwells.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: missing words, lots of them References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG admin@twwells.com wrote: >These words, 830 of them, were obtained by intersecting the words >in a number of lexicons and then subtracting the words in >/usr/share/dict/web2. [snip] > >The point is *not* that these words should be added. The point is >that a cursory, in-my-sleep check of the word list shows glaring >deficiencies. A serious audit of the list will find way many more >missing words (I did a preliminary -- think ~50,000-100,000 >missing words if it is supposed to approximate the contents of an >unabridged dictionary.) > This is to be expected. The word list was created from an very old Webster dictionary, because the copyright had to expire before it could be used in an open source dictionary. >Anyway, I'm willing to create a replacement list, if it's likely >to actually get used. > That would be a welcome contribution to the project. >Missing words: [Lots of them deleted] > Just my EUR.02 -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message