Russian Dictionaries

["Ivan Tugoy" <address@hidden>]

Hello,

This is an extract of my message to general addict3 list, concerning
dictionaries.

1. New Dictionaries.

I could compile two Russian dictionaries using the word lists, which I had
told you about in one of my previous messages. They are:
 * russian.adm -- ~147 000 words (435 Kb)
   http://addict.ghcube.com/russian.zip
 * ru_phys.adm -- ~ 16 000 words ( 86 Kb)
   http://addict.ghcube.com/ru_phys.zip
The first one contains a general vocabulary and the second is loaded with
physics and math words.

2. Reliability Testing.

I only tested russian.adm and found that it is able to satisfy the average
spelling needs, although several problems with geographical titles, like
names of countries or rivers were obvious. The other main problem deals with
the notorious forms of words, the overwhelming majority of which does
present in a dictionary while there are some forms that were not included.

It leads to the situation, when a word, being deliberately good, is
recognized as misspelled and a checker suggests replacing it with one of
other forms of a same word. But this problem is not too dramatic since there
were not many cases of this kind. Even MS Word tends to have this problem,
in less extent.

3. Authorship.

As I mentioned earlier, a person who "keeps rolling" these dictionaries is
Lev Melnikovsky. He kindly allowed it to be freely used in any way. In
accompanying note he says: "Feel free to copy, use, distribute, abuse or
delete this dictionary in any way you wish". Thanks, did just that :-) But
still, in the readme.txt file with the dictionary, it would be better to
mention the original word list, which the dictionary is based on. It will
help to avoid confusion that our company developed the whole stuff.

--
Sincerely,
Ivan Tugoy <mailto:address@hidden>,
Lucky Tesseract Group <http://www.ghcube.com>.