LanguageTool

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LanguageTool is a free and open-source spell and grammar checker, which can be used as a plug-in for LibreOffice, OpenOffice, Vim, Emacs, Firefox, Thunderbird,, and Google Chrome, or as a stand-alone desktop application. It can also be integrated on websites.

Started by Daniel Naber for his diploma thesis in 2003 (then written in Python), it now has around 10 regular committers and supports 31 languages.

Based on error detection patterns, rules are created and then tested for a given text.

Video LanguageTool

See also

• OpenTaal
• Lightproof, a Python-based grammar checker embedded in LibreOffice

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References

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External links

• Official website
• Languagetool-org on GitHub
• FOSDEM 2014 presentation: "How we found a million style and grammar errors in the English Wikipedia"

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