Looks like it's not easy to find contemporary texts accompanied by a permissive license. The site liberliber.it has many free contemporary books, by the are all distributed under the CC-BY-NC-SA, and the NC (Non Commercial) bit is a bit problematic here. To play safe, better use books from project Gutenberg; I would go for romances, because they are likely to contain both dialogues and narrative text. Here's a list: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/IT_Romanzi_%28Biblioteca%29
They are all a bit oldish, but we can pick something from the beginning of last century, at least. A few options: - Il perduto amore, 1921 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41281 - I sogni dell'anarchico, 1922 http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25175/pg25175.txt - I divoratori, 1922 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34983.txt.utf-8 In other categories, other suitable books: - Fuochi di bivacco, 1913 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/49223/49223-0.txt (I like this because it's mostly in the present tense) - La favorita del Mahdi, 1911 http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25180/pg25180.txt (by Emilio Salgari!) Any opinions on which one we should pick? Whatever the choice, I think I'll give the chosen book a pass with sed and replace s/egli/lui/, s/ella/lei/, s/de'/dei/, and similar ones. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-keyboard in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1591149 Title: Find more modern text for Italian word prediction Status in ubuntu-keyboard package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: The text used for word prediction in Italian [1] is IMHO not very suitable for the goal of predicting words typed into computers nowadays (especially on phones), fo a few reasons: - it's very old -- from 1868; particles like "cotesto", "pel", "pei" are not used anymore - it's mostly written in the "passato remoto" past tense, which is not that common in modern speech - it talks about history, with ample use of long and rarely used words. - dialogues are entirely missing I think it should be changed with a modern text, not without dialogues. Does this have to be a single book, or can we assemble a few different texts together (i'm thinking about adding some pieces from newspapers, blogs and short novels, mostly)? [1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~phablet-team/ubuntu- keyboard/trunk/view/head:/plugins/it/src/la_francia_dal_primo_impero.txt To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-keyboard/+bug/1591149/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
