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

From: Erik Velldal (erikve@ifi.uio.no)
Date: Thu Nov 02 2006 - 23:04:03 MET

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    On 11/2/06, Martin Krallinger <martink@cnb.uam.es> 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.

    Hi Martin,
    Kevin Atkinson maintains a set of Perl scripts under the name VarCon to
    convert between American, British, and Canadian spellings and vocabulary:
    http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/

    Cheers,
    Erik 

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    Erik Velldal
University of Oslo
Department of Informatics

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