Proofing Tools Technology at Neurosoft S.A.

The aim of this paper is to present the R&D activities carried out at Neurosoft S.A. regarding the development of proofing tools for Modern Greek. Firstly, we focus on infrastructure issues that we faced during our initial steps. Subsequently, we describe the most important insights of three proofing tools developed by Neurosoft, i.e. the spelling checker, the hyphenator and the thesaurus, outlining their efficiencies and inefficiencies. Finally, we discuss some improvement ideas and give our future directions.Comment: Workshop on International Proofing Tools and Language Technologies July 1-2, 2004, Patras, Greec

A Rule-based Hyphenator for Modern Greek

The purpose of this paper is to formally examine hyphenation as it pertains to Modern Greek with the aim of achieving accurate and thorough machine hyphenation. Grammar rules are interpreted and formally expressed in terms of regular expressions of word substrings, and exact hyphenation rules are derived. Vowel splitting, which traditionally is indicated in terms of prohibitive rather than explicit grammar rules, is examined in detail. Many ambiguities caused by circular definitions of the prohibitive rule vowel sequences are detected, an overwhelming majority of which are resolved within the present framework. 1