# LanguageTool **A proof-reading tool for English, Spanish, German, Polish, Chinese, French, Russian, Italian, Dutch and [more languages](https://www.languagetool.org/languages/)** Version 3.5, 2016-09-30 Copyright (C) 2005-2016 the LanguageTool community and Daniel Naber (www.danielnaber.de) Homepage: https://www.languagetool.org ## Requirements * Java 8 or later * For LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org integration: * LibreOffice 3.5.4 (or later) or * Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 (or later) ## Usage ### LibreOffice/OpenOffice To integrate LanguageTool into LibreOffice or OpenOffice.org, you can use two methods: 1. Double-click `LanguageTool-3.5.oxt`. The extension should start installing. Follow the on-screen instructions. 2. If the above method doesn't work, call `Tools > Extension Manager > Add...` in LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org and browse for the `LanguageTool-3.5.oxt` file. Close and restart LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org Writer. Remember to close the QuickStarter as well if you use it. Type text with an error, e.g. "Feel tree to do so." - make sure the text language is set to English for this example. You should see a blue underline under the word "tree" after about a second. Opening the context menu with the right mouse button on that word offers you a short description of the error and a correction ("free"). If you are using LibreOffice and you want to check English or Russian texts: Use `Options -> Language Settings -> Writing Aids -> Edit...` in the `Tools` menu to disable LightProof and enable LanguageTool for English. Note that there will also be a new menu item "LanguageTool" under the `Tools` menu. If the native spelling and grammar dialog doesn't check grammar, make sure that the check box `Check Grammar` is checked in it (if the window closes because of no mistakes in the document, simply make any spelling mistake to make it open for a longer time, and check the box). Check also if LanguageTool is visible under `Grammar` in `Tools > Options > Language Settings > Spelling` for your language. Note: you can disable the grammar check without uninstalling LanguageTool simply by clearing the check box next to LanguageTool in the same dialog. Please see https://www.languagetool.org/issues/ if you experience problems. ### Stand-alone version To use the stand-alone version, double click on the `languagetool.jar` file or call `java -jar languagetool.jar` from the command line. ### Command-line version To check plain text files from the command line, use java -jar languagetool-commandline.jar -l xx with `xx` being the code for your language, e.g. `en-US` for American English or just `en` for English without spell checking activated. ## Source code history On 2013-08-08 we moved our source code from Subversion at Sourceforge to git at github (https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool). Most history has been preserved. History in git is lost for: * binary files * branches and tags If you need this history, the old subversion repository is still available at http://svn.code.sf.net/p/languagetool/code/trunk/languagetool/. ## License Unless otherwise noted, this software is distributed under the LGPL, see file [COPYING.txt](https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool/blob/master/languagetool-standalone/COPYING.txt) See [third-party-licenses/README.txt](https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool/blob/master/languagetool-standalone/src/main/resources/third-party-licenses/README.txt) for the copyright of the external libraries. #### Frequency data Some language's spelling dictionaries contain frequency data. This is taken from the Mozilla-B2G Gaia project (https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/) which again takes it from Spell On It (http://www.spellonit.com/downloads/frequencies/). The frequency data is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). #### Asturian The Asturian data for part-of-speech tagging are from the Freeling dictionary, licensed under GNU General Public License. Contributor(s): Xesús González Rato #### Belarusian Spellchecker dictionary is based on dict-be-official-2008-20140108.oxt from http://bnkorpus.info/download.html under Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike 3.0. #### Breton The Breton data for part-of-speech tagging is based on the Apertium Breton dictionary under GNU General Public License with permission of its authors: Copyright (C) 2008--2010 Francis Tyers Copyright (C) 2009--2010 Fulup Jakez Copyright (C) 2009 Gwenvael Jekel Development supported by: * Prompsit Language Engineering, S. L. * Ofis ar Brezhoneg * Grup Transducens, Universitat d'Alacant The Breton FSA spelling dictionary is based on the Breton Hunspell dictionary "Difazier Hunspell an Drouizig" (0.13) licensed under the Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL), available at: http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/an-drouizig-breton-spellchecker/releases/0.13/difazier-an-drouizig-0_13.oxt #### Catalan The Catalan data for part-of-speech tagging were created by Jaume Ortolà based on the Freeling 3.0 and Softcatalà 2.5.0 dictionaries, both released under the GNU General Public License. #### Chinese The Chinese data and code for part-of-speech tagging is based on ictclas4j project (http://code.google.com/p/ictclas4j/) under Apache License 2.0. #### Danish The Danish tagger is based upon data from Stavekontrolden - Danish dictionary for Hunspell. © 2012 Foreningen for frit tilgængelige sprogværktøjer. These files are published under the following open source licenses: GNU GPL version 2.0, GNU LGPL version 2.1, Mozilla MPL version 1.1 http://www.stavekontrolden.dk Stavekontrolden is based on data from Det Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab (The Danish Society for Language and Literature), http://www.dsl.dk. #### Dutch The Dutch data are partly based on Alpino parser for Dutch by Gertjan van Noord and is released on LGPL license. Alpino is available at http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/alp/Alpino/. The POS tag system and values come mostly from OpenTaal, www.opentaal.org. #### English The English data for part-of-speech tagging are based on: ##### Automatically Generated Inflection Database (AGID) version 4 Automatically Generated Inflection Database (AGID) version 4, Copyright 2000-2003 by Kevin Atkinson The part-of-speech database is taken from Alan Beale 2of12id and the WordNet database which is under the following copyright: This software and database is being provided to you, the LICENSEE, by Princeton University under the following license. By obtaining, using and/or copying this software and database, you agree that you have read, understood, and will comply with these terms and conditions.: Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and database and its documentation for any purpose and without fee or royalty is hereby granted, provided that you agree to comply with the following copyright notice and statements, including the disclaimer, and that the same appear on ALL copies of the software, database and documentation, including modifications that you make for internal use or for distribution. WordNet 1.6 Copyright 1997 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. THIS SOFTWARE AND DATABASE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND PRINCETON UNIVERSITY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. 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Placing this material on internal or public servers is also encouraged. The compiler is not aware of any export restrictions so freely distribute world-wide. You can verify the public domain status by contacting Grady Ward 3449 Martha Ct. Arcata, CA 95521-4884 grady@netcom.com grady@northcoast.com For more information on wordlists used, see agid-readme.txt. ##### Part Of Speech Database, compiled by Kevin Atkinson The part-of-speech.txt file contains is a combination of "Moby (tm) Part-of-Speech II" and the WordNet database (see above and [pos-readme.txt](https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool/blob/master/languagetool-language-modules/en/src/main/resources/org/languagetool/resource/en/pos-readme.txt)). ##### 2of12inf wordlist Released to public domain, see `resource/en/12dicts-readme.html`. ##### Public domain Moby wordlists Public domain Moby wordlists were used also for generating POS tag information for common proper names. For more information, see the scripts in the source directory `languagetool-language-modules/en/src/main/resources/org/languagetool/resource/en/`. #### French The French data for part-of-speech tagging are from the [Dicollecte](http://www.dicollecte.org/home.php?prj=fr) project. They are made available here under the terms of the Mozilla Public License 2.0 (http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/). See also detailed information in [README_lexique.txt](https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool/blob/master/languagetool-language-modules/fr/src/main/resources/org/languagetool/resource/fr/README_lexique.txt). #### Galician The Galician data for part-of-speech tagging were created by Susana Sotelo Docio based on Freeling and Apertium dictionaries. Both are licensed under GPL. #### German The German data for part-of-speech tagging is taken from Morphy (http://www.wolfganglezius.de/doku.php?id=cl:morphy) under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0. #### Greek The Greek dictionary only contains very few test entries for now, added by Panagiotis Minos. They are made available here under LGPL. #### Italian The Italian data for part-of-speech tagging is taken from Morph-it!, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 License and the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) (see http://sslmitdev-online.sslmit.unibo.it/linguistics/morph-it.php). #### Khmer The dictionary was obtained from these four sources: http://code.google.com/p/khmer-dictionary-tools/ - Part of Speech entries and words from * Chuon Nath's dictionary released by the Buddhist Institute of Cambodia under a BSD License for the LanguageTool Project * http://sealang.net/khmer/ - Part of Speech entries and words from Robert Headley's dictionary were released by Robert Headley under a BSD License for the LanguageTool Project * http://www.panl10n.net/english/Outputs%20Phase%202/CCs/Cambodia/MoEYS/Software/2009/KhmerCorpus.zip Released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License for the LanguageTool Project * http://www.sbbic.org - The Society for Better Books of Cambodia has made changes to all these sources, correcting, and adding new words in order to improve the grammar checker - SBBIC releases these changes and additions under a BSD License for the LanguageTool Project #### Malayalam The data has been collected by Jithesh.V.S. of the Centre For Development of Imaging Technology (C-DIT), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India (http://www.cdit.org). It comes from public sources like newspapers, magazines, and novels. It is made available here under GPL. #### Polish The Polish data for part-of-speech tagging is from the Morfologik project, licensed on BSD (see http://morfologik.blogspot.com). #### Romanian The Romanian data for part-of-speech tagging is developed by Ionuț Păduraru (http://www.archeus.ro). It's being released here on LGPL license. #### Russian Russian dictionary originally developed by www.aot.ru and licensed under LGPL. http://www.aot.ru/download.php file rus-src-morph.tar.gz or http://sourceforge.net/p/seman/svn/HEAD/tree/trunk/Dicts/SrcMorph/RusSrc/ file morphs.mrd. It was partially converted to fsa format in 2008-2011, 2014 by Yakov Reztsov. Frequency information for spell-checking dictionary from www.aot.ru. Source frequency information http://sourceforge.net/p/seman/svn/HEAD/tree/trunk/Dicts/SrcBinDict/ file WordData.txt. It was converted to use with spell-checking dictionary in 2014 by Yakov Reztsov. #### Slovak The Slovak data were created by Zdenko Podobný based on Slovak National Corpus data (http://korpus.juls.savba.sk/). They are released here on LGPL license. #### Spanish The dictionary was mainly obtained from the Freeling project: * http://devel.cpl.upc.edu/freeling/svn/latest/freeling/data/es/dicc.src * http://garraf.epsevg.upc.es/freeling/ It is released under the GNU General Public License. #### Swedish The Swedish data are based on DSSO. The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Göran Andersson. Contributor(s): * Tom Westerberg * Niklas Johansson The Swedish Dictionary may be used under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1 or later (the "LGPL"). http://dsso.se #### Tagalog The Tagalog Tagset was designed by Nathaniel Oco. The words for the Tagger Dictionary were taken from the Philippine Literature Domain of Dalos D. Miguel's Comparative Analysis of Tagalog POS Taggers. The Tagger Dictionary and the Tagset are made available under LGPL. The Trigram Training Data is available at: The Trigram Training Data is available at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/tattoi.u/files/Trigram%20Text/ #### Tamil The Tamil dictionary, tagset and rules were created by Ve. Elanjelian . It is released under GPLv3 licence. * The work owes much to his previous work with Hunspell spellchecker, a project that has had many contributors including S. Muguntharaj, Radhakrishnan, Vijay, A. Suji, Malathi Selvaraj, Sri Ramadoss, Yagna Kalyanaraman, and Pranava Swaroop. * The work also made use the Tamil corpus created by Crubadan 2.0 for shortlisting nouns and verbs. The corpus data is released under GPLv3, as well. * The grammatical rules themselves are based on "thamizhnadaik kaiyEdu" (2004) and "thamizhil nAmum thavaRillAmal ezhuthalAm" (2007) #### Ukrainian The Ukrainian data for part-of-speech tagging were created by Andriy Rysin It's based on spell-uk (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ispell-uk/) which is licensed under GPL/LGPL.