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C r e a t i n g d i c t i o n a r i e s f o r A p a c h e O p e n O f f i c e a n d m a i n t a i n i n g t h e m t h r o u g h w e b s e r v i c e s Andrea Pescetti

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C r e a t i n g d i c t i

a r i e s f

A p a c h e O p e n O f f i c e a n d m a i n t a i n i n g t h e m t h r

g h w e b s e r v i c e s

Andrea Pescetti pescetti@apache.org

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A n d r e a P e s c e t t i

VP, Apache OpenOffice
Unaffiliated volunteer
Dictionary packager
Day job: web developer

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Andrea Pescetti:

Getting Started Getting Started Getting Started Getting Started

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O p e n O f f i c e L a n g u a g e S u p p

t

$ svn ls https://svn.apache.org/repos/a sf/openoffice/trunk/extras/l10 n/source/ | grep -c / 112

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W r i t i n g A i d s : A n O v e r v i e w

Spell checker
Thesaurus
Hyphenation Patterns
Grammar Checker

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S p e l l C h e c k e r

Engine: Hunspell, integrated

in OpenOffice.

Hunspell dictionaries

available for 100+ languages.

http://hunspell.sf.net

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T h e s a u r u s

Engine: integrated.
OpenOffice-specific format.
Must start from scratch.
lingucomponent.openoffice.org

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H y p h e n a t i

P a t t e r n s

Engine: Hyphen, from Hunspell.
Integrated in OpenOffice.
Format: tool-specific.
But you can convert TeX

patterns: http://ctan.org/

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G r a m m a r C h e c k e r

Available only as API.
Options as extensions:

LanguageTool, LightProof, CoGrOO and more.

Format: tool-dependent.

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Andrea Pescetti:

Licensing Issues Licensing Issues Licensing Issues Licensing Issues

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M e r e A g g r e g a t i

n
Crazy variety of licenses.
Many incompatible with AL2.
But bundling is allowed:

“mere aggregation”, LEGAL-117

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E x t e n s i

s ( O X T )

Writing Aids are now

extensions (XML+data+ZIP)

Hosted anywhere, bundled at

build time.

Reinforces “mere aggregation”.

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C h

e y

r l i c e n s e

AL2: Apache License, free and

permissive, GPLv3 compatible.

LGPLv3/GPLv3: can be used

through mere aggregation.

AGPLv3: untested so far, but

likely mere aggregation too.

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( D

' t ) M e e t A p a c h e L e g a l

Extensions are externally hosted
extensions.openoffice.org

considered external too.

No paperwork needed!

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Andrea Pescetti:

Distributed Management Distributed Management Distributed Management Distributed Management

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U s e a r e p

i t

y

Make sources available in an
nline repository.
Use version control.
Expose a web-based change

tracking interface.

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S p e l l C h e c k e r

One file in text format.
Human readable, except rules.
Good for collaborative

editing.

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S p e l l C h e c k e r : e x a m p l e

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T h e s a u r u s

One file in text format.
A generated index.
Human readable.
Good for collaborative

editing.

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T h e s a u r u s : e x a m p l e

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H y p h e n a t i

n
One text file.
Format: less readable than

Perl!

Changes very rarely.
Fix bugs upstream, in TeX.

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H y p h e n a t i

: e x a m p l e

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G r a m m a r c h e c k e r

LanguageTool: rules in XML.
Fix upstream, in

LanguageTool.

Collaboration possible.

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G r a m m a r c h e c k e r : e x a m p l e

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P a c k a g i n g

Generation of the OXT

extension is scriptable.

Post-commit hook possible.
Keep generated OXT files in

the same repository.

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T e a m S t r u c t u r e

Collaboration possible in

every component.

A script to package the

extension.

A release manager to make

stable versions available.

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Andrea Pescetti:

Community Involvement Community Involvement Community Involvement Community Involvement

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G

n g 2 .

Native-lang community: best

people to improve N-L tools.

Motivated users, interested

in improving OpenOffice.

Issue: providing efficient

infrastructure.

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W e b

a s e d i n t e r f a c e

An idea from OOoCon 2010.
Report missing or erroneous

words from within OpenOffice.

Easy to setup as web service.
Notifications: e-mail to

maintainers, suggestions in DB.

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W e b b a s e d i n t e r f a c e : e x a m p l e

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E x p

e w e b s e r v i c e s

Direct usage of the web

application via browser.

Access available through web

services too.

Suitable for applications or

macros.

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W e b s e r v i c e s i n O X T

Embed a macro in the OXT

dictionary package.

Right-click on a word:
Nominate for inclusion in dictionary
Nominate for removal from dictionary
Report wrong hyphenation

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T h e s a u r u s m a i n t e n a n c e

Vithesaurus: free online tool

for collaboratively creating and maintaining a thesaurus.

In use (German) at

http://www.openthesaurus.de

https://github.com/danielnaber

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H a n d l i n g D u p l i c a t e s

Millions of users can lead to

duplicate reports.

But it's a plus: use

frequency for ranking.

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H a n d l i n g W r

g R e p

t s

Annoying: users make some wrong

suggestions and repeat them!

The web application supports

“motivated blacklisting”: repeated wrong submissions are handled and a message can be shown to the user.

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