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Developer(s) Daniel Naber and Marcin Milkowski Initial release 15 August 2005; 11 years ago (2005-08-15) Stable release 3.6 (28 December 2016; 2 months ago (2016-12-28)) [±] Repository github.com/languagetool-org | ||
LanguageTool is a free and open-source, cross-platform spell and grammar checker which can be used as an extension in LibreOffice/OpenOffice, Vim, Emacs, Firefox and Thunderbird, 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 more than 20 languages.
Based on error detection patterns, rules are created and then tested for a given text.
WikiCheck
LanguageTool has a community website for checking Wikipedia content. It could be a single article, the content of a recent change or a small part of Wikipedia.
References
LanguageTool Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA