Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Browse by Tags

All Tags » Spelling   (RSS)
Monday, June 08, 2009 5:01 AM

Check spelling or grammar in another language: a new training course on Office Online

Do you have difficulty checking spelling and grammar in a different language in Office 2007? If you do not know how to set the language of your text, check out this new “ Check spelling or grammar in another language ” training course, which is precisely
Posted by nlgblog | 1 Comments
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 3:25 AM

Office 2007 Language Interface Packs with Luxembourgish and Irish spell-checkers

The range of languages for which Office 2007 offers a spell-checker is constantly expanding, as the regular readers of this blog know . Luxembourgish and Irish have just been added to this list. Users of Office 2007 can now freely download a Language
Posted by nlgblog | 1 Comments
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 3:31 AM

Office 2007 Language Interface Packs and spell-checkers for Armenian, Georgian, Telugu, Konkani, Punjabi, Kannada, and Oriya

In a recent post, the Language Log was discussing localization of software in under-resourced languages like Yoruba. Mark Liberman noted that, via its « Unlimited Potential Program », Microsoft had probably done more for linguistic diversity than any
Posted by nlgblog | 2 Comments
Thursday, September 11, 2008 6:50 AM

Can I remove a word from Office’s speller dictionary?

The other day, I was discussing a number of suggestions to improve Office’s spell-checker . A customer was suggesting we should allow users to delete individual items from Word’s spell-checker lexicon. This feature is already available, in fact: if you
Posted by nlgblog | 12 Comments
Thursday, September 04, 2008 5:30 AM

Suggested improvements to Microsoft Word’s spell-checker

A few days ago, James wrote about the articles the Seattle Times published about our Natural Language Group and the Office spell-checkers . One of these articles was encouraging the Seattle Times readers to suggest improvements ( What words would you
Posted by nlgblog | 7 Comments
Tuesday, September 02, 2008 11:47 PM

Office 2007 Language Interface Packs now available for Uzbek, Assamese, Kyrgyz and Malayalam

A number of Office 2007 language interface packs are now available for several new languages, including : · Uzbek (spoken by 20 million people in Uzbekistan) · Assamese (official language of Assam, in North-East India, spoken by 13 million people) · Kyrgyz
Posted by nlgblog | 16 Comments
Thursday, August 28, 2008 7:06 PM

Natural Language Group in the (Local) News

Last week our group was visited by reporters from the Seattle Times, who took some photographs and talked to folks on the team about the challenges of developing software features that keep up with the world's rapidly changing languages. This morning,
Posted by nlgblog | 2 Comments
Filed under:
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 7:51 PM

Language Interface Packs for Office 2007 are available for Basque, Galician, Malay, Bengali

We talked about the Tatar Language Interface Pack (LIP) for Office 2007 a few weeks ago. Since then, other LIPs for Office 2007 have been released. LIPs enable users to work in a localized environment and traditionally include a spell-checker for that
Posted by nlgblog | 4 Comments
Friday, February 15, 2008 9:15 PM

Spellchecking ain't easy

A customer wrote to us recently with the observation that our English spellchecker doesn’t recognize the word ain’t , a fact which struck this customer as a tad, well, old-fashioned. Pedantic, perhaps. The words “uptight” and “shortsighted” might have
Posted by nlgblog | 11 Comments
Filed under:
Wednesday, August 15, 2007 5:51 PM

German Spelling Reform (Die Spezialfälle der deutschen Rechtschreibreform)

Die neue deutsche Rechtschreibung bringt komplexe Bereiche mit sich in denen sich die Schreibweise entweder vom Kontext abhängig oder basierend auf die Betonung ändert. Wir haben Artikel für Sie erstellt, die es Ihnen erlauben über die Rechtschreibprüfung
Posted by nlgblog | 1 Comments
Thursday, December 14, 2006 10:27 PM

Office 2007 recognizes "truthiness" - Merriam-Webster's word of the year

Who says Office 2007 isn't hip? Your doc won't get flagged for any sort of " truthiness " in Word. -- Jay Waltmunson (Program Manager) (Thanks to Mari Olsen and Ann Brockenbrough for pointing out our hipness.)
Posted by nlgblog | 2 Comments
Filed under:
Tuesday, October 03, 2006 9:25 PM

Errant entry “denitrified” in Word 97

Yes, our spellchecker was responsible for the errant “denitrified”. But not since Word 97. http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003629.html -- James Lyle (Test Lead)
Posted by nlgblog | 0 Comments
Filed under:
Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:45 PM

Astronomical union consults MS spellchecker on pluton?

Nature is reporting that Owen Gingerich, head of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) consulted the Microsoft Word and the WordPerfect spellcheckers to help gauge how common the term pluton is. Pluton , of course, is the new term proposed by the
Posted by nlgblog | 1 Comments
Filed under:
Thursday, August 03, 2006 4:19 PM

Paging Sargent Batchelor

Brand new in Office 2007: a red squiggle on the name Batchelor . Uh oh. I’d better explain. Everyone wants the Office spellchecker to recognize their name, and in fact we work very hard to make sure that our spellcheckers recognize not only frequently
Posted by nlgblog | 4 Comments
Filed under: ,
Tuesday, July 25, 2006 11:08 PM

Updates in Office 2007 speller

Just finished updating the English lexicons for the Office 2007 speller. Here are some highlights: 1. " Teixeira" is recognized , in response to an ESPN Nate Silver column forwarded to us: ...T-E-I-X ... as a baseball writer, I have a vested interest
Posted by nlgblog | 4 Comments
Filed under: ,
 
Page view tracker