Sizes and Sources of Alki Foreign Language Proofing Tools

 Last reviewed: February 5, 1998
Article ID: Q134995
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Word for Windows 95, versions 7.0, 7.0a

SUMMARY

The following is a list of the sizes (in words) and sources of the foreign proofing tools supplied by Alki Software.

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Speller

Language                   Words              Source of Vocabulary
--------                   -----              --------------------

US English                 106,000            HMCo, Brown Corpus,

UK English                 107,700            HMCo, Lancaster-
                                              Oslo/Bergen Corpus
US English (Comprehensive) 189,400

UK English (Comprehensive) 191,100 

Australian English         178,100            Macquarie PTY Ltd.

Catalan                    241,100            University of Barcelona

Czech                      6,166,200          Jan Hajic

Danish                     257,600            Munksgaard

Dutch                      226,900            Celex

Finnish                    196,800            Kielikone Oy

French                     262,100            Larousse

French Canadian            262,100            Larousse

German                     383,800            Langenscheidt

Hungarian                  80,000 (keywords)
                           1 billion (derived words)

Italian                    359,300            Zanichelli

Norwegian Bokmal           273,800            Dr. Kolbjorn Heggstad

Norwegian Nynorsk          241,400            Dr. Kolbjorn Heggstad

Polish                     54,000 (keywords)
                           722,000 (derived words)

Portuguese Brazilian       200,200            HMCo

Portuguese Iberian         194,100            Porto Editora

Russian                    1,055,400          HMCo

Spanish                    400,300            Larousse, HMCo

Swedish                    254,700            Sprakdata, HMCo

Turkish                    30,000 (keywords)
                           10 billion (derived words)

Thesaurus

Language                   Keywords    Approximate   Sources
                                       Synonyms
--------                   --------    -----------   -------

US English                 44,000      458,000

UK English                 25,000      200,000

US English (comprehensive) 50,000      600,000

Catalan                    34,000                    Bibliograf S.A.

Danish                     23,000      180,000

Dutch                      22,000      150,000

Finnish                    8,000                     Kielikone Oy

French                     23,000      180,000

French Canadian            24,000      180,000

German                     60,000      600,000

Italian                    16,000      150,000

Norwegian                  24,000      190,000

Portuguese Brazilian       116,001                   Nova Fronteira

Portuguese Iberian                                   Porto Editora

Spanish                    43,000      650,000

Swedish                    63,000      620,000

KBCategory: kbusage
KBSubcategory: kbproof
Additional reference words: 7.0 word95 word7 winword
Keywords : kbproof
Version : 7.0 7.0a
Platform : WINDOWS

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Last reviewed: February 5, 1998
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