1149029 - Create Tagalog word list for autocorrect

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Keyboard, defect)

Description

[Bruce Huang [:bhuang] (inactive)]

Create a Tagalog word list for keyboard autocorrect

Comment 1

[Robert BOB Reyes]

Is there a list of English terms that is commonly used for autocorrect so that we may start localizing? Thanks!

Comment 2

[Kevin Scannell]

Hi Robert, for autocorrect the idea would be to include a full Tagalog word list with some frequency information, and then there's code for making the best suggestions based on the user's partial input.  The good news is that I can probably do most of this for you :)

As it happens I worked on the first FLOSS spell checker for Tagalog about 10 years ago with a guy named Ramil Sagum.   It's not huge - about 18000 words and limited support for affixes and so on, but the coverage is pretty good for such a small list.

Nevertheless, I think it would be valuable to revisit the list and try to expand it, in particular making sure "new" words that we might have missed ten years ago are included.   Would you be interested in working on this with me?  Might be easiest to coordinate via email - feel free to drop me a line.

Comment 3

[Robert BOB Reyes]

(In reply to Kevin Scannell from comment #2)
> Hi Robert, for autocorrect the idea would be to include a full Tagalog word
> list with some frequency information, and then there's code for making the
> best suggestions based on the user's partial input.  The good news is that I
> can probably do most of this for you :)
> 
> As it happens I worked on the first FLOSS spell checker for Tagalog about 10
> years ago with a guy named Ramil Sagum.   It's not huge - about 18000 words
> and limited support for affixes and so on, but the coverage is pretty good
> for such a small list.
> 
> Nevertheless, I think it would be valuable to revisit the list and try to
> expand it, in particular making sure "new" words that we might have missed
> ten years ago are included.   Would you be interested in working on this
> with me?  Might be easiest to coordinate via email - feel free to drop me a
> line.

Sure. Thank you very much Kevin! We have a localization sprint after the Easter Holidays, maybe we can focus on this one. I'm using [e-mail]

Comment 4

[Kevin Scannell]

Attachment: tl_wordlist.xml

Attaching a frequency list incorporating the words edited by the mozillaph.org team.  Frequencies based on about 6 million words of Tagalog crawled from the web.

Comment 5

[Delphine Lebédel [:delphine - Use needinfo]]

Kevin: who usually helps in getting this in? Unsure of next steps to get a patch going :)

Comment 6

[Kevin Scannell]

For all the other languages I've done, Rudy Lu has actually created and landed the change on github, e.g. bug 1050558, bug 1059745, and so on.

Comment 7

[Delphine Lebédel [:delphine - Use needinfo]]

Ok asking for some help from Rudy then to get this in. Thanks!

Comment 8

[Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)]

Hi, I will try to get this in, but first we need a keyboard layout for Tagalog.
Is it good enough to use Qwerty layout as English layout for Tagalog?

Comment 9

[Robert BOB Reyes]

(In reply to Rudy Lu [:rudyl] from comment #8)
> Hi, I will try to get this in, but first we need a keyboard layout for
> Tagalog.
> Is it good enough to use Qwerty layout as English layout for Tagalog?

Tagalog uses the English QWERTY keyboard layout. Thanks!

Comment 10

[Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)]

Robert, thanks for your help to confirm this.
Clear the ni for Delphine.

Comment 11

[GitHub Autolander Bot]

Attachment: [gaia] RudyLu:keyboard/Bug1149029-Tagalog_layout > mozilla-b2g:master

Comment 12

[Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)]

Comment on attachment 8603271 [details] [review]
[gaia] RudyLu:keyboard/Bug1149029-Tagalog_layout > mozilla-b2g:master

Hi Arky,

If possible, please help give feedback on this layout and dictionary.
Thanks.

Comment 13

[arky [:arky]]

(In reply to Rudy Lu [:rudyl] from comment #12)
> If possible, please help give feedback on this layout and dictionary.

@Rudyl Currently on long trip to West Africa. Will try to test it ASAP. 

@bob Do want a take a shot at it? I'll help you with technical aspects of testing the Tagalog keyboard and dictionary.

Comment 14

[Robert BOB Reyes]

(In reply to arky [:arky] from comment #13)
> (In reply to Rudy Lu [:rudyl] from comment #12)
> > If possible, please help give feedback on this layout and dictionary.
> 
> @Rudyl Currently on long trip to West Africa. Will try to test it ASAP. 
> 
> @bob Do want a take a shot at it? I'll help you with technical aspects of
> testing the Tagalog keyboard and dictionary.

Sure. No problem. Let me know what to do. Thanks!

Comment 15

[Delphine Lebédel [:delphine - Use needinfo]]

Arky: any updates on this please? thanks!

Comment 17

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on