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Lexicon Base

The lexicon of HySpell Mesrobian Spell-checker consists over 156,000 Armenian root words. It is based on Stepanos Malkhasianz and Edvard Aghayan prolific multi-volume dictionaries, as well as, the much older Haygaznian dictionary. Along with this root lexicon base, the affix rules of the spell-checker can span over 5 million Armenian legal words covering both Western and Eastern Armenian dialects in the traditional Mesrobian orthography.

This leaves a very small margin of missing illegal words, while not compromizing any of the legal ones.

Suggestion Power

The mechanism of suggesting correct words to a misspelled word is fairly standard in the HySpell spell-checker. It is quite helpful specially in the case when the misspelled word differs by 2 or 3 letters from a legal word. Moreover, the spell-checker may even be used to efficiently convert Armenian text written in the Modern Orthography to the correct Classical (Mesrobian) Orthography.

Multi-Encoding Issues

The HySpell spell-checker is equipped with enough intelligence to find Armenian content among mixed multiple language text. It does not need further manual language indicators when spell-checking an Microsoft Word document. Moreover, it identifies Armenian text in the two major encodings, namely UNICODE and the old ARMSCII-8 encodings.

Integration and Extensibility

HySpell spell-checker is tightly integrated within Microsoft Office Word 2007 application. This makes it very practical and easy to write professional Word documents in Armenian. Among its important features, it has the capability to add new word to the custom dictionary, in this way extending the lexicon-base of legal words. Moreover, the spell-checker has an open architecture exposing even the internal lexicon-base and the affix-rules file for further linguistical custom tuning.