Re: [boost] [gsoc]built-in support for dictionary words

Subject: Re: [boost] [gsoc]built-in support for dictionary words
From: Arash Partow (arash_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-03-29 11:00:27

Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> 
> Thankfully, the Unicode standard defines representation and a lot of 
> operations. The funny thing is that some languages, such as Thai, 
> actually require a dictionary to tell words apart from each other, since 
> there are no explicit word boundaries (alternatively, it can be done 
> using machine learning algorithms to percept word-like constructs, there 
> are quite a few research papers on that topic).
> 

I would further that by not only allowing spoken languages but generalize
the concept to take any form of bit groupings, then it could be useful in
other areas of comp-sci.

Furthermore, Bloom filters would only be one aspect of such a library, the
underlying data structures would require tries, wide-column stores etc.

Seems more like a few GSOCs.

Arash Partow
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