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

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Martin

> I want to use a spelling converter ONLY as a form to 'normalize' the a
> large collection of biomedical text for subsequent IE, IR, document

You might be better off using some form of stand-off markup and just
annotating your texts with the "normal form" instead of actually transforming
your documents. This is considerably more flexible, and is pretty much the
orthodoxy amongst IE architectures these days - see e.g. GATE, UIMA, others.

Best

Hamish

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