I once had a student write: "Ahmed is a poor man. He lives in a puncture
in Isa town." You have to speak both dialects to figure this one out!
John Milton
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Harold Somers wrote:
> It would be a grave mistake to think that the only difference between
> British and American English is a few wayward spellings. There are
> considerable and extensive lexical, grammatical and idiomatic
> differences. The 1st and 3rd of those are more or less well known, but
> the grammatical differences never cease to surprise me. I'd be
> moderately interested to see what other examples corpora listers come up
> with (though no doubt they will also remind me that there are
> significant differences in usage between American dialects, not to
> mention Canadian etc)
>
> To give just one example of each:
>
> Lift vs elevator
> Have you got vs do you have
> Half four vs 4:30
>
> Harold Somers
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > >
> > > 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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