NAME
Lingua::EN::VarCon - Provides access to the VarCon (Variant Conversion
Info)
DESCRIPTION
VarCon is a data set provided as part of the Word List project.
It contains a number of lists and tables of words that can be used to
help automatically convert the English language between the differing
spellings of it's local dialects (American, British, Canadian).
In an age where Spanish application translations are common, but finding
a British, Canadian or Australian translation (as used by FAR more
people than American English) can be almost impossible, and when
"English" on the internet is increasingly seeming to be "American", it
is hoped that by providing access to the raw data in a variety of
different ways (optimised for different application types with different
load profiles) it will encourage developers to integrate support for
automated dialect translation into internationalisation toolkits, and
thus into many applications.
METHODS
For this initial release, only methods to locate the files are provided.
Additional access methods will be provided later, or on request.
abbc_file
The "abbc_file" method returns the location of the abbc.tab file from
the VarCon data set.
also_file
The "also_file" method returns the location of the variant-also.tab file
from the VarCon data set.
infl_file
The "infl_file" method returns the location of the variant-infl.tab file
from the VarCon data set.
wroot_file
The "infl_file" method returns the location of the variant-wroot.tab
file from the VarCon data set.
voc_file
The "voc_file" method returns the location of the voc.tab file from the
VarCon data set.
TO DO
- Split out into smaller language-specific files
- Access in the form of a memory hash (optimised per language?)
- Access in the form of a Berkely DB
- Access in the form of a SQLite database (maybe overkill)
SUPPORT
Perl bugs should always be submitted via the CPAN bug tracker
Bugs in the word lists should be reported via the feature request
tracker on the SourceForge site of the Word Lists project.
For other issues, contact the maintainer
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO
COPYRIGHT
Copyright for this distribution is a little more involved than most.
The Lingua::EN::VarCon Module
Copyright (c) 2006 Adam Kennedy. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included
with this module.
The VarCon Data Sets
Copyright 2000-2004 by Kevin Atkinson
Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this array, the
associated software, and its documentation for any purpose is hereby
granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appears in
all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission
notice appear in supporting documentation. Kevin Atkinson makes no
representations about the suitability of this array for any purpose. It
is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
Original Ispell Data Sets
The original words lists come from the Ispell distribution:
Copyright 1993, Geoff Kuenning, Granada Hills, CA All rights reserved.
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