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LanguageTool 2.0

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 20:50:19 +0100

Today, we have released LanguageTool 2.0. Despite the version number, it's a normal release in our 3-month release cycle. As with most releases, much of the work is put into the XML-based error detection rules. As always, the detailed change log is available at languagetool.org/download/CHANGES.txt. There's now also an early release of a Firefox Add-on for LanguageTool which lets you check web page content and form content.

Old News and New News

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:24:32 +0200

Misc items that have accumulated over the past months...

LanguageTool 1.3 has been released
LanguageTool participates in Google's Summer of Code 2011
jwordsplitter, used by LanguageTool, is now available via Maven
OpenThesaurus has a new layout. Also, there are now two Android clients. See twitter for up-to-date OpenThesaurus-related news.
OpenStreetMap house numbers in Babelsberg (only a small part was contributed by me, though)

LanguageTool 1.1 and jWordSplitter 3.1

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 17:43:26 +0200

LanguageTool 1.1 has just been released. Besides many new error detection rules, it also contains a new version of jWordSplitter, a Java library to detect the nouns of which German compound words are made up. Unfortunately, the LanguageTool release took almost one year. Our plan is to have releases about every three months now - see our new roadmap. LanguageTool release announcements and news are now also posted to twitter.

LanguageTool reaches 1.0.0 after six years

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 02:05:34 +0100

Today, version 1.0.0 of LanguageTool has been released. So it took about six years from the first implementation in Python (whose version number I cannot remember) to today's release in Java. We fixed quite some bugs, added rules and also added support for three new languages: Danish, Catalan, and Galician. Actually, despite its version number, it's basically a common release.

Released LanguageTool 0.9.9

Fri, 22 May 2009 21:21:29 +0200

The latest version of LanguageTool features the following changes:

Fix for a NullPointerException that could appear when using paragraph-level rules
Fixes for some bugs with pairing brackets
Initial support for Icelandic
More Dutch, English, Polish, Romanian and Slovenian grammar rules
A new sentence tokenizer that uses the SRX format for specifying end-of-sentence breaks

Released LanguageTool 0.9.8

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:41:12 +0200

LanguageTool 0.9.8 adds new rules for several languages (Italian, Romanian, Slovak, Polish, English) and fixes a crash bug. See the change log for details.

Released LanguageTool 0.9.7

Tue, 3 Mar 2009 23:36:49 +0100

We just released LanguageTool 0.9.7. It includes some OpenOffice.org integration fixes and some updates to the error rules. On-thy-fly checking in OpenOffice.org should now be pretty robust (assuming you're using OpenOffice.org 3.0.1). As usual, you can find the details in the change log.

OpenThesaurus mit 50.000 W�rtern

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:28:01 +0100

Die flei�ige Community hat OpenThesaurus so erweitert, dass es seit heute mehr als 50.000 W�rter umfasst - verteilt auf 18.384 Bedeutungen. Passend dazu hat die Homepage endlich ein �bersichtliches Design bekommen: www.openthesaurus.de

LanguageTool 0.9.5 for OpenOffice.org 3.0

Sun, 2 Nov 2008 22:12:32 +0100

We've just released a new version of LanguageTool, the Open Source language checker. It should now work with OpenOffice.org 3.0 without crashing and it supports on-the-fly checking, as I explained in a previous blog entry. Other changes include: more rules for English and Polish and less (but still too many) false alarms for the German agreement checker.

BarCamp Berlin 3

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:07:05 +0200

Bei neun gleichzeitigen Tracks (Schedule siehe hier) kann man naturgem�� nur einen kleinen Teil der Vortr�ge mitbekommen, aber die von mir besuchten Vortr�ge waren doch sehr interessant. Es ging um Knowledge Managment mit Wikis, Recommendation Systems und die Vorstellung von Startups (z.B. aromicon, Zootool). Leider leidet die Akustik doch sehr, wenn sieben Vortr�ge in der gleichen Halle stattfinden, getrennt nur durch Stellw�nde...

Au�erdem habe ich gelernt, dass es auch Brezeln ohne Salz gibt. Wenn man bedenkt, wie viel Zeit in unserer Volkswirtschaft durch das Abknibbeln der Salzk�rner von Brezeln verloren geht (und es gibt doch wohl niemanden, der das Salz mitisst?), ist das ein echter Fortschritt und ein wichtiger Beitrag zur L�sung der aktuellen Finanzkrise.