[bksvol-discuss] Re: Rank Spelling
- From: Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:58:15 -0600
I suggest that in Kurzweil we initially check ranked spelling with
capitalized words included in the check. This would enable us to
determine if there are obvious problems in the reco of capitalized words
themselves. Some books have the habit also of having the 1st line of
each chapter in CAPITALIZED-ONLY chars, which may lead to some further
spurious lowering of quality rating. Last, but not least, other books --
like military fiction -- have a lot of words containing mixed alph and
numeric chars -- like F-15 for example. Once again, there is a setting in
ranked spelling properties to turn off this check.
I suggest that, when editing the book these switches be left active;
however when doing a final rating, the switches be turned off, as many of
these outwardly misrecoed words are in the printed text. As you know, I
am draconian at heart on the subject of quality, but. . . we do not want
to "throw out the baby with the bath water"! G.
Guido Dante Corona
IBM Research,
Human Ability & Accessibility Center, (HA&AC)
Austin Tx.
Phone: 512. 838. 9735.
Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.ibm.com/able
". . . Maybe it was only those who were most certain they were right who
were guaranteed to be wrong. And that maybe, just maybe, those who
questioned the most were in the end those who came closest to being wise."
[David Poyer, The Command]
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