LanguageTool Wiki

This is a summary of the feedback I got for this post and a similar post to the dev mailing list:

Features

• terminology support: only makes sense with multi words (terms that are made up of more than one word, like "New York"). Being able to specify POS tags would be nice.
• integration into more editors and word processors
• improve integration in OmegaT (usability issues, plug-in not up-to-date)
• improve integration in CheckMate (easier set-up)
• show line numbers in the GUI
• provide well-known style sets like Chicago Style, Strunk & White, Economist Style Guide and others
• show a single number that presents global text quality

Rule selection

• make the commandline tool accept multiple --rulefile options to add multiple rule files (also disambiguation files)
• add a switch for the commandline tool to add multiple word lists (for spelling), even with a way to turn off the embedded spell check dictionary
• add a switch to enable or disable all rules in a specific category implemented in LanguageTool 3.3
• tags for rules as another way of grouping rules

Rule empowerment

• make rules depend on text structure (headlines, list items, etc.)
• ignore single words in a language other than the rest of the text (is this a question of integration?)
• more powerful rules like "use a comma after a subordinate phrase"

General Ideas

• become an open source competitor for Acrolinx IQ
• work more closely together with the OmegaT/Okapi teams

Sources

As some of the feedback was provided to me in private, I'm listing the sources here anonymously:

• Re: feedback about LanguageTool from a language professional (2016-02-26)
• RE: looking for language professionals (2016-02-16)
• Re: looking for language professionals (2016-02-14)
• Looking for language professionals - LanguageTool Forum (2016-02-11)
• Re: looking for language professionals (2016-02-10)