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
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=File-UserConfig
Bugs in the word lists should be reported via the feature request tracker on the SourceForge site of the Word Lists project.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=360079&group_id=10079&func=browse
For other issues, contact the maintainer
AUTHOR
Adam Kennedy <cpan@ali.as>, http://ali.as/
SEE ALSO
File::ShareDir, http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/
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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