Posted: Monday, February 15th, 2010 at 3:45 pm. Filed in Editing, Language, Localization, settings, WordPress, WordPress.com.
Tags: after-the-deadline, Editing, proofreading, spell check
Proofread More Languages
We’re often asked when we plan to make our intelligent proofreading technology available for more languages.
We’ve been hard at work and today we’re announcing After the Deadline proofreading for French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish.
These languages feature After the Deadline’s smart contextual spell checking. We’re also using a great open source project called Language Tool to check French and German grammar.
If you’re on WordPress.com and your blog language is set to French, German, Portuguese, or Spanish–you’re ready to use our multi-lingual proofreader.
Click 
in the visual editor or 
in the HTML Editor.
We realize many of you blog in multiple languages and we have not forgotten you. Visit your WordPress.com profile page and select Use automatically detected language to proofread posts and pages.
With this option enabled, our proofreader will guess the language of your blog post and apply the correct proofreading technology for that language.
The WordPress.com Proofreading technology is available as the After the Deadline plugin for self-hosted WordPress blogs.
Enjoy.
February 15th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
wow, that’s cool.
i’ll wait for bahasa Indonesia
February 15th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
Indonesian is one of the languages we plan to support.
February 15th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
Wow, it’s raining new features here! And I guess I will be the maiden commentor here yet again!
P.S.: I rarely use this feature. I use Windows Live Writer and love it!
February 15th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
this is useful especially when encountering hard to understand languages.
February 15th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
Thank you WordPress.
February 15th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Merci !
February 15th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
I`m waiting for Bulgarian
)
February 15th, 2010 at 4:58 pm
I hope all other languages will too have this feature ………
good luck
February 15th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Ah brilliant. Now I can write something in french without needing to constantly look up a grammatical query in the bilingual dictionary….. XD
February 15th, 2010 at 5:16 pm
This sounds great…so may I suggest adding another language, per esempio, italiano?? I live in Italy and it would be very
nice to have that one, too.
grazie,
Susan
February 15th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
Italian support is planned.
February 15th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
Well this is good news. I use English proof reader and it corrected me many times. My first language is Arabic and I do not see this feature coming very soon in Arabic. That’s OK, English is a universal language and will be more than enough for my blog.
February 15th, 2010 at 5:31 pm
And hungary support?
February 15th, 2010 at 5:50 pm
Hungarian isn’t in our next batch. We may look into offering it (and other languages) in the future though. The criteria are: how many users of the language are on WP.com http://en.wordpress.com/stats/, whether our technology (the front-end JavaScript code, our NLP tools) can support the language, and if there is enough data available in the right form for our system to learn from.
February 15th, 2010 at 5:31 pm
I only write in English but I do applaude WordPress.Com’s efforts! I use the proofreading feature, and I’m glad it’s now in use for other languages.
February 15th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
Thanks. Our goal is to provide tools for everyone to express themselves.
February 15th, 2010 at 6:39 pm
Fantastic una otra buena idea de WordPress!
February 15th, 2010 at 6:45 pm
How can I help to add my language (bulgarian) into the system?
February 15th, 2010 at 7:58 pm
If you’d like to help translate the proofreading feature, we have a call for volunteers at: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/call-for-volunteers-help-translate-after-the-deadline?replies=21
Our spell checker is statistical and we use Wikipedia to learn the context of different words.
If you’re comfortable with XML, the Language Tool project would likely be interested in grammar rules for Bulgarian. http://www.languagetool.org/development/ Additions to this project will benefit AtD as we’re using this program for grammar checking outside of English.
I’m also looking for lists of homophones for various languages so I can create a misused word detection feature for more languages. You can contact me raffi at automattic dot com if you have one of those
Some more information about the After the Deadline project and getting involved:
http://open.afterthedeadline.com/community/get-involved/
February 15th, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Thank you so much for this!!
February 15th, 2010 at 7:03 pm
Yay! Now people won’t keep thinking I killed my husband when they try to translate my blog into their language.
Thank you, WordPress.
(My very much alive husband thanks you too)
February 15th, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Turkish?
February 15th, 2010 at 8:52 pm
cool… now the site is going to expand…
February 15th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
C’est super, génial ! Merci beaucoup !
February 15th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
Brilliant! Will be very useful. Thanks for another great addition.
G
February 15th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Thanks, and please support Arabic!
February 15th, 2010 at 10:07 pm
Great! Really! Thank you very much!
February 15th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
I would love NORWEGIAN!!!
February 15th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
very smart toolbar!!!
February 15th, 2010 at 11:14 pm
Will be waiting to next language
February 16th, 2010 at 1:06 am
Japanese eventually?
February 17th, 2010 at 11:11 pm
Japanese is hard for us to do. It’s one of those languages that we can’t find the words by looking for spaces. We could handle it on the server-side but on the front-end (visual editor, HTML editor) it’s tougher. In the future we may offer it but for now we’re focusing on languages that have fewer technical hurdles for us to overcome.
February 16th, 2010 at 1:23 am
Un gros bravo!
February 16th, 2010 at 1:32 am
You guys keep impressing me. Really great job!
February 16th, 2010 at 4:29 am
Hey! Great job again and what about Hindi language!
February 16th, 2010 at 5:04 am
Great! Can’t wait for you guys to add Bahasa Malaysia too (or even better Trengganuspeak – but I think that’s a bit too hard to be done)
February 16th, 2010 at 6:05 am
The Visual-Editor is simply awesome!! It loads pretty fast on my Firefox 3.5 ( my 8Mbps connection is the culprit
)
But, there are less fortunate bloggers in the world. Until recently i too was very wary of the visual editor prior to getting access to Blazing fast Broadband connectivity.
Is anyone working on reducing the Visual Editor footprint?…
Are there plans to release it as a stand-alone executable??…
February 16th, 2010 at 7:01 am
This is great! Multilanguage is really important. I hope you will be able to include all languages with time!
February 16th, 2010 at 7:41 am
I need Russian, thanks
February 16th, 2010 at 8:09 am
Can hardly wait for the day when WordPress will offer “*Read* this blog in your language”.
Again, thanks for all you do for us.
February 16th, 2010 at 9:55 am
Extension bien utile ! merci
February 16th, 2010 at 10:07 am
I’ll support for Indonesian language
February 16th, 2010 at 11:57 am
Should the criteria not move from how many already use WordPress to how many potentially could if support for their language was made available?
February 16th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Wow!!! I wasn’t aware of this great feature. A quick suggestion:can you guys ignore the portion in the [ sourcecode ] tags.
February 16th, 2010 at 2:22 pm
Have been looking for such a tool for German language. Simply brilliant!:-)
February 16th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
How about polish language? Any chance? I also have question about translating themes. Not much themes is currently supporting my language. Is there any chance to get language support in the future in all themes?
Thanks
February 16th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
Cool! Very nice! Thanks
February 16th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
Danke, das ist sehr hilfreich! Viele Grüße aus Berlin.
February 16th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Firefox users can already use dictionaries and grammar spellcheckers via add-ons:
https://addons.mozilla.org/
Btw, there seems to be a problem with the security certificate of this blog.
It generated an alert when i wanted to login to comment.
February 16th, 2010 at 8:08 pm
How can I help get tiếng Việt added? I saw your volunteer thread, but LanguageTool doesn’t support Vietnamese. Is LT support a prerequisite?
February 16th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
Sorry guys, but I turned mine off. I’m a retired editor and the proofreader’s errors were driving me crazy.
February 17th, 2010 at 6:13 pm
Most of the proofreader’s “errors” are supposed to be optional and off by default. This includes all the style checking errors, the passive voice detector, and the hidden verb detector. I made a programming mistake that caused all these options to be on for everyone by default. I fixed this on Monday. You may want to try it again (assuming all the options are turned off). I think one of the things AtD does a good job with (minus this recent issue) is keeping quiet unless there really is an error.
February 17th, 2010 at 12:22 am
Thank you very much!
Waiting this feature to come in Tamil language too. Hope WordPress can do that, where we as bloggers given support to localise the WordPress in Tamil. Next, hope to see the proof read thing Tamil.
Thanks again and you guys rock!!
Tharique Azeez
உதய தாரகை
February 17th, 2010 at 2:01 am
Hurrah! Now you just need to add Russian.
February 17th, 2010 at 5:55 am
I hope Filipino and Japanese will be included on the next batch.
February 17th, 2010 at 6:11 am
I like this program very much. I wish it had existed sooner.
February 17th, 2010 at 9:37 am
Very nice tool, but will it support Romanian in the near future?
February 17th, 2010 at 10:12 am
Most filipinos do not use wordpress blogs to write posts in Filipino, but still it would be interesting if Filipino is included in you planned inclusion.
February 17th, 2010 at 10:57 am
That’s cool! Well done wordpress.
February 17th, 2010 at 2:15 pm
sir
what about indic languages like telugu tamil……
please help……
thanking you
ramakanth
February 17th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
Hey do you guys have any plans to support Hindi???
February 17th, 2010 at 6:54 pm
It is awsome. Especially for people who are big on travelling. I can’t wait to see an Montagnais version!!
February 18th, 2010 at 12:54 am
I’ll wait for Indonesia language Support
*
*Hmm… I’m sure there will no more typo mistake again in my blog
February 18th, 2010 at 1:51 am
I have just created my account… Although i can read and write simple English, and also read Italian, Portuguese, French, Catalan…, i expect to publish mainly in my first tongue. Thanks for all the team for this opportunity. I could offer an oppinion, if there are any uncertainties concerning the point if the Spanish you publish is clearly understood by readers of standard *american* spanish readers (not always happens), since that is precisely the matter which i work with
Thanks again, and congratulations!
Marcos Revérberi
February 18th, 2010 at 5:08 am
The technology is impressive, and this tool will certainly help many people.
But here’s a not-so-popular idea:
If you need to rely on computerized proofreaders to communicate in a certain foreign language, you should go back to studying the basics and, in the meantime, stick to languages you know. If you think you can already communicate well, but you claim that you just want to “perfect” your writing, get a real living native thinking person to give you holisitic analysis, because this technology won’t fix ugly. If you are fluent and creative in any language, including your own, just watch your spelling.
As for reading foreign language blogs, you must do your ABCs before you try to tackle meaningful text in a foreign language.
February 18th, 2010 at 5:15 am
indonesian language
February 18th, 2010 at 5:41 am
very helpful, thanks a lot
February 18th, 2010 at 5:46 am
yes..waiting it in Bahasa Indonesia..:-)
February 18th, 2010 at 6:23 am
This is fabulous!
February 18th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
waahh…senangnya…..mudah-mudahan cepet buat bahasa indonesianya yaa….
February 18th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
tapay mantap gan
February 18th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
Thanks!!!!! Like really thanks!! I love you guys =)
Thanks again! Keep up the good work 
I have my blog on Spanish and having to check the spelling on Word (mostly for accents) was not
fun >.<
February 18th, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Super great function > thank’s
Wordpress addict
February 18th, 2010 at 6:47 pm
Merci ça assure grave cette fonction , en Français dans le texte ;-D
February 18th, 2010 at 8:32 pm
@Everspike: unfortunately, the romanian speakers are verry few, they are not even in the stats
February 19th, 2010 at 11:57 am
Hey, have you thought about extending it to Swedish at a later point?
February 19th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
Can I scream amen to the top of lungs for the Portuguese proofreading?
I love you, WP team.
February 19th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Cool!
Hope Greek gets supported soon.
February 19th, 2010 at 3:04 pm
Usaha yang bagus. Semoga ke depan bisa menjangkau semua bahasa.
February 19th, 2010 at 3:25 pm
bahasa indonesia yang disempurnakan
Enhanced Indonesian
February 19th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
now this is a GREAT thing! go WP go and I agree with other posters such as ritakml, Multilanguage is really important with some many of us speaking and learning second languages.
February 20th, 2010 at 12:16 am
Cool! I support all languages and love them all, but how about arabic?!
February 20th, 2010 at 12:35 am
RUSSIAN!!!
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February 20th, 2010 at 6:59 am
cool!
February 20th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
Please add Georgian (ქართული) too
February 20th, 2010 at 3:59 pm
arpik((alarpih))
February 20th, 2010 at 5:13 pm
Is it possible to have my blog (English) automatically translated into other languages on the net so that people (who may not know many, or any English words), in other countries will find them through the (translated) tags?
Not sure how Wrinkly Writers translates (probably a bit of a laugh) but it sure would give me tremendous pleasure to know I am being read all over the world. (What every author dreams of!)
February 21st, 2010 at 12:19 am
Is עברית (Hebrew) on the agenda? As one leaning עברית that will be more valuable to me as I incorporate more עברית into my writing.
February 21st, 2010 at 2:23 am
Maybe Polish will be on the list of languages?
February 21st, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Swedish should be on your to-do-list. It’s an international language spoken by about nine million people! And did you know that many nice old English words like flask or window comes from old Swedish?
Seriously though, Swedes are quite active with WordPress. Any chance for proofreading in Swedish?
February 22nd, 2010 at 8:10 am
Esperanto?
February 22nd, 2010 at 9:44 am
This is great! And how about Vietnamese?
February 22nd, 2010 at 10:18 am
I know Czech language is a small one, but still, we would greatly appreciate it…
Try to get in touch with http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~kubon/
February 22nd, 2010 at 3:03 pm
मैं हिंदी के लिए प्रतीक्षा कर रहा हूं.
I am waiting for support in Hindi.
February 22nd, 2010 at 10:52 pm
necesito español, como hago?
February 23rd, 2010 at 4:04 am
sip, waiting for indonesian..
February 23rd, 2010 at 3:05 pm
A wonderful tool, I use it all the time…
February 24th, 2010 at 9:40 am
Man, you guys…. pfffff… wonderfull work you do… bless ya…
February 24th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
Thank you WORDPRESS. That is very helpful. We can actually avoid any embarrassing sentences of our own
February 24th, 2010 at 6:34 pm
As a multilingual blogger, I have been waiting for this. Thank you! Cheers,
February 24th, 2010 at 9:02 pm
Am also waiting for Turkısh:)
best regards
February 25th, 2010 at 4:50 pm
Cool! Sounds pretty good. However…what about czech?
February 25th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
TAMIL LANGUAGE
தமிழ் இணைய நண்பன்
தமிழ் இஸ்லாம் அரங்கம்
thank you WORDPRESS