Microsoft KB Archive/134995

= WD: Sizes and Sources of Alki Foreign Language Proofing Tools =

PSS ID Number: 134995

Article Last Modified on 10/24/2002

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Word for Windows 95 7.0
 * Microsoft Word for Windows 95 7.0a

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This article was previously published under Q134995



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



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 (Portugal)     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 (Portugal)                               Porto Editora

Spanish                   43,000      650,000

Swedish                   63,000      620,000 For information about how to contact Alki Software, click the appropriate article number in the following list to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

65416 Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, A-K

60781 Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, L-P

60782 Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, Q-Z

Additional query words: 7.0 word95 word7 winword

Keywords: kbproof KB134995

Technology: kbWord95 kbWord95a kbWord95Search kbWordSearch

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