Google augments open-source spell-check

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 13, 2009 9:24 PM EDT
CNET.com; By Stephen Shankland
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Google's expertise in translation has begun to pay dividends for an entirely separate project, its Chrome browser--as well as any other software using the open-source spell-checking package called Hunspell. Chrome combines WebKit's spell-check infrastructure with Hunspell's multilanguage library of correctly spelled words to supply spell-check in 27 languages. But many widely used words were missing from Hunspell, and Google used its translation expertise to fill in the gaps.

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