Papiamentu Spellchecker
Spelling and orthography checker for Papiamentu.
The Papiamentu Spellchecker is an application I made because I'm not very strong at writing Papiamentu. Those accents stress me out, so I just write incorrect Papiamentu and then have it corrected. I used to do the correction myself, but it took too much time and so I wanted to automate it. I didn't know of any Papiamentu spellcheckers I could use, so I figured I'd have to build one myself.
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For this I used the book Ortografia i Lista di palabra Papiamentu - Buki di Oro by Omayra Leeflang. It contains a list of all valid words in Papiamentu (Curaçao's version, I assume), and all the orthographic rules. There's a programming language that works on the basis of facts and rules — Prolog — and I used that to build this spellchecker. Some parts took too much time in Prolog and I rewrote them in Rust.
Now it's a spellchecker where you can throw in a block of text and it gives you back a score: whether it's good Papiamentu, which words you should or could change. Sometimes it just doesn't know — that's possible too — but in principle it helps you find a large part of the spelling mistakes in your text.
What makes it special is that it has a connection to communicate directly with AI agents like ChatGPT or Claude. While you're chatting you can say: "Translate this to Papiamentu and have it checked by the spellchecker." The AI knows how to find the spellchecker and how to check. Because the spellchecker was made for an iterative process, the AI can decide based on the score whether further improvements are needed.
That's how I use this spellchecker to check and correct the texts on my website (which is mostly in Papiamentu). It's always online and freely available to everyone. The website has instructions on how to connect it to your AI agents. If you have questions, I'd love to hear them.
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