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Dilwyn Jones
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Subject: Re: [ql-users] Dictionaries
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From: Dilwyn Jones
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From: Dilwyn Jones
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Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 8:46 PM
Subject: [ql-users] Dictionaries
Obviously if anyone has more QTYP dictionaries I would be pleased to add
them to the collection. Of all the QTYP
I've just added a large collection of QTYP spell-checker dictionaries to the
Dictionaries page on my website at http://www.dilwyn.uk6.net/index.html along
with a few Lexicons, mostly for Celtic languages (Welsh, Irish and Scottish
Gaelic, Manx and Breton). These Lexicons are mostly in plain
Many thanks, I'd figured out most of the .aff file meanings and
written a little SBASIC program to do the processing. I have to
manually enter rules for each letter key, because I was too lazy to
write a parser, but basically it worked first time apart from a little
typo which created some, err,
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Found it. It is ispell
(http://www.lasr.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html). Each letter is a code
for prefixes and suffixes that are permitable in the given language -
every language can have its own affix file to define what each letter
means!
...
Right, this is
I recently acquired a large number of PD word lists in ASCII format
which I'm converting to QTYP dictionaries for the QL. Most European
languages are
there, including minority languages.
I'm going through the process of removing OS specifics like removing
carriage returns, translating
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
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One thing I need help on is on what appears to be a simple ASCII
compression scheme on some of the unix-sourced word lists. I'm
assuming they're from Unix systems because the end of line character
is only a linefeed, no carriage returns. I need to find out if the
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
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I can of course go through the word list until I find all the
permutations, but if anyone already knows the scheme used, it would
help me enormously. I hate reinventing wheels!
Here's a short example text from one of the files:
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I've done a little detective work,
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
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One thing I need help on is on what appears to be a simple ASCII
compression scheme on some of the unix-sourced word lists. I'm
assuming they're from Unix systems because the end of line character
is only a linefeed, no carriage returns. I need to find out if the
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
...
One thing I need help on is on what appears to be a simple ASCII
compression scheme on some of the unix-sourced word lists. I'm
assuming they're from Unix systems because the end of line character
is only a linefeed, no carriage returns. I need to find out if the
I've no real idea, but I love a challenge...
It's obviously a code of some sort, but I don't think it's quite as
you suspect:
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abandon/DGS
abandonment
abase/DGS
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abbey/MS
abbot/MS
Abbott
abbreviate/DGNSX
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aberrate/NX
...
ability/MS
abject/PY
abjection/S
abjure/DGS
: Sunday, July 31, 2005 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] dictionaries
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
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One thing I need help on is on what appears to be a simple ASCII
compression scheme on some of the unix-sourced word lists. I'm
assuming they're from Unix systems because the end of line
character
Found it. It is ispell
(http://www.lasr.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html). Each letter is a
code for prefixes and suffixes that are permitable in the given
language - every language can have its own affix file to define what
each letter means!
The file is a munched (ie condensed) file that is
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From: Dilwyn Jones
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Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] dictionaries
Looking at the dozen or so English word lists (and being careful which
is American and which British!) I find most of them have words like
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