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Virastyar is a free and open-source (FOSS) spell checker. It stands upon the shoulders of many free/libre/open-source (FLOSS) libraries developed for processing low-resource languages, especially Persian and RTL languages

Publications:

Kashefi, O., Nasri, M., & Kanani, K. (2010). Towards Automatic Persian Spell Checking. SCICT.

Kashefi, O., Sharifi, M., & Minaie, B. (2013). A novel string distance metric for ranking Persian respelling suggestions. Natural Language Engineering, 19(2), 259-284.

Rasooli, M. S., Kahefi, O., & Minaei-Bidgoli, B. (2011). Effect of adaptive spell checking in Persian. In NLP-KE


Contributors:

Omid Kashefi
Azadeh Zamanifar
Masoumeh Mashaiekhi
Meisam Pourafzal
Reza Refaei
Mohammad Hedayati
Kamiar Kanani
Mehrdad Senobari
Sina Iravanin
Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli
Mohsen Hoseinalizadeh
Mitra Nasri
Alireza Dehlaghi
Fatemeh Ahmadi
Neda PourMorteza

Features

  • Spell Checking
  • Grammatical Error Correction
  • Writing Style
  • Punctuation Correction
  • Standardization (ISIRI 6219)
  • Pinglish Conversion
  • Easy Date and Calendar Conversion

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Categories

Word Processors, Linguistics, Research, Natural Language Processing (NLP)

License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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  • shaspen Posted 2017-06-15
    This project helped me for Persian text corrections a lot. Thank you team
  • fhaghighat Posted 2014-10-13
    Great Work ... Very Intelligent ... Great for Enterprise formal letters and also a great learning tool ...
    2 users found this review helpful.
  • stevenoctavious Edited 2014-08-24
    I think a LibreOffice add-on should be a must on your to-do list. So far the best and the most capable Persian spellchecker on the market. Keep up the great work guys!
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • business123exp Posted 2013-05-13
    Cools! User friendly interface. Works fast. Can manage pretty massive data volume. Highly recommended.
    3 users found this review helpful.
  • stevecopy Posted 2013-05-07
    You did a great job. Thank you!
    1 user found this review helpful.
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

BSD, Linux, Windows

Languages

Persian

Intended Audience

Advanced End Users, End Users/Desktop, Science/Research

User Interface

Win32 (MS Windows)

Programming Language

C#, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)

Related Categories

C# Word Processors, C# Linguistics Software, C# Research Software, C# Natural Language Processing (NLP) Tool, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Word Processors, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Linguistics Software, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Research Software, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Natural Language Processing (NLP) Tool

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2011-01-26
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