OpenTaal
Hellebaard is one of the main forces behind Stichting OpenTaal, a nonprofit foundation creating and maintaining open source writing aids for the Dutch language. A selection of notable works are:
- flagship Dutch spelling website woordinfo.org
- Dutch spelling checker
- Dutch word list, officially approved by the Dutch Language Union
- Dutch translation of ISO codes
- Dutch autocompleting and autocorrecting keyboard for Android
Related works and spin-offs are:
- development of the language independent open source spelling checker Nuspell written in C++ with the funding of Mozilla
- official Dutch spelling website woordenlijst.org for the Dutch, Belgium and Suriname governments
- educational poster on diacritics marks in Dutch, officially approved by the Dutch Language Union, October 2012
Detail of educational poster on diacritical marks in the Dutch language
Related presentations are:
- Nuspell: version 3 of the new spell checker, FOSS spell checker implemented in C++17 with aid of Mozilla, FOSDEM, Brussels, 2020
- English locale for the Netherlands (en_NL), Bunnik, November 2016
- Integrate spell and grammar checking, Efficiently improve content creation with FOSS writing tools, Brussels, January 2016
- A standard for prioritised and dynamic hyphenation definitions, 24th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands (CLIN24), Leiden, January 2014
- OpenTaal - Taal is van ons allemaal, T-DOSE, Eindhoven, October 2013
See also LinkedIn and contact Hellebaard for the development, extension or integration of language tools in your software products and services.
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