On 1/31/06, Dave Fawthrop <hyphen@hyphenologist.co.uk> wrote:
12 in 500plus is a resounding failure.
Then don't use it. For many users, 12 out of 500 is good enough to make the program useful. No program is ever going to handle dialect well, because dialect doesn't follow the normal rules.
With my other hat on I write "intelligent" language software, Low 90% correct is very bad, above 99% correct is acceptable. For a voluntary organisation I would be accept 50% correct.
Intelligent language software is too broad; you write code to automatically hyphenate words. A concrete problem like that is significantly easier than a problem like "find errors in this text document". 50% of errata sent by humans to errata@pglaf.org is wrong; how do you expect a computer to do better?