Hi, On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Franz Josef Konrad <franzl@fjkonrad.de> wrote:
Has somebody used TextLint to analyze German Text?
I don't know of anyone.
I haven't found any hint in this direction. If there is no adaption for German available, do you think it can be done easily?
A lot of rules are for English only (with hardcoded words such as 'however', 'and'...).
I had a short look to the source code and saw that one of the key points of TextLint is to recognize the type of a word (noun, verb, etc.). This is done by building a dictionary of words that comes from the English Wiktionary.
I'm sure how large is the part of TextLint that relies on word typing. I would say it's not a big one but I can be wrong.
From a first and naive view I would guess this can be done also for German and the rules could be adopt to German styling rules.
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