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Great work. Kudos to the everyone
involved!!!
regards,
Venantius.
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Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 5:42 PM
Subject: [ossig] Bahasa Melayu word list
released.
The Open Source Group of MIMOS is happy to
release version
1.0 of the Bahasa Melayu
(Bahasa Malaysia, Malay language, ms_MY)
wordlist.
To our knowledge, this is the first non-proprietary BM
wordlist
to be released. It has approx 14,400 words.
It's
Copyright ©2003 MIMOS Berhad, but it is released under
2 open content
licenses, allowing it to be widely used without
any licensing
cost.
You can download it here:
http://www.asiaosc.org/uploads/20030620_1/bahasa_melayu_wordlist_v1_0.zip
Or
you can get (or help to enhance) the 'wiki' version here:
http://www.asiaosc.org/enwiki/page/Bahasa_Melayu_word_list.html
It
is dual licensed under the OpenOffice PDL and the GFDL. It
cannot
currently be plugged into OpenOffice as a spellchecker,
but that feature
will be added during Q3/2003.
In essence, the licensing
means:
1) you can use the word list for whatever you want (e.g. in
open source or proprietary software, for research, etc.)
2) if you
enhance the word list, you must release the enhancements
under the same
license, and credit MIMOS as the original authors.
We have a method of
being able to analyze future words lists to
see if they were based on this
word list and were not released,
or did not credit MIMOS.
Of course,
this word list was not based on any existing proprietary
word list.
To be able to release it as an open document,
we had to create it from
scratch. The full methodology to create
the word list can be found
at:
http://www.asiaosc.org/enwiki/page/Bahasa_Melayu_word_list_generation_methodology.html
We
are not linguists nor did we hire linguists to produce this
list.
There are probably errors, and definitely omissions.
Nevertheless, we
believe it will be of benefit to the future of
BM and software in
Malaysia.
Imran
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Imran William Smith
Project Manager, Open Source Development,
MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia
Asian Open Source Centre : http://www.asiaosc.org
MIMOS Open Source : http://opensource.mimos.my
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