Re: [Corpora-List] American and British English spelling converter

From: Martin Wynne (martin.wynne@oucs.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Nov 02 2006 - 22:06:08 MET

  • Next message: Ben Hutchinson: "Re: [Corpora-List] American and British English spelling converter"

    If you find such a program, let us know, and we can run it over the BNC
    and change the 5849 occurrences of 'realize' and inflected forms to
    'realise' etc., and otherwise correct British English to your preferred
    spellings ;)

    Martin Krallinger wrote:

    > Dear all,
    >
    > I was looking for some simple tool (preferable in Python) which
    > is able to do automatic conversion of texts (or words) from
    > British English (UK) to American (US) English and vice versa.
    > (Example: realize <-> realise)
    >
    > This seems to be an easy task, but I could not find any ready to use
    > stand alone tool capable of performing this task.
    >
    > I want to integrate this application into an Information extraction
    > system
    > which handles scientific literature.
    >
    > I am also interested in references where aspects related to US/UK English
    > spelling has been analyzed in the context of information extraction, text
    > mining and terminology extraction.
    >
    > Best regards,
    >
    >
    > Martin
    >
    >



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