Corpora: THX: Wordsmith question

[Van den Heuvel M Mev]

Thanks for all you very useful inputs. I am indeed using a Windoze system as
you surmised, so the unix tools won't be that helpful to me. But I did take
note of all the tips on diff and cygwin. Regarding the MS Word tip on
comparing documents - that doesn't work too well in this case, since the
comparison focuses on editing changes - so all the differences in
capitalisation and punctuation that occur are shown, but not the missing
items.

I implemented a roundabout method in Wordsmith suggested by Oliver Mason and
copied the two lists to a third document. The one list was copied twice and
the other only once. I then calculated the word frequencies again in
Wordlist, and the scores indicated what was missing where. A score of
3=present in both lists; 2=present only in the list that was copied twice
and 1=present only in the list that was copied once. Since I was in quite a
hurry to get the work done, it seemed like a good idea at the time and it
did save me a lot of time and numerous headaches.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Rod de Lima-Lopes [mailto:limalopes at terra.com.br]
Sent: 03 April 2002 19:05
To: Van den Heuvel M Mev
Cc: 'CORPORA at hd.uib.no'
Subject: Re: Corpora: Wordsmith question


Hi Maritza

I think you should use detailed consistencie tool (in the wordlist
programme), since it can tell you how quite acuratelly how many lexicon is
shared by two wordlists

go to wordlist > compararison > consistency (detailed

I hope it helps

[]s Rod
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On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Van den Heuvel M Mev wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm having a spot of trouble with the Wordlist tool in the Wordsmith suite
> that I hope someone out there can help me with. I want to compare two
almost
> identical word lists containing the entries of a pronunciation lexicon.
> There are some inconsistencies between the lists, i.e. items missing in
the
> one that should be in the other and vice versa. I need to identify the
> missing words. I thought that I could use the "compare word lists"
function
> in Wordlist for this purpose by setting the minimum frequency to 1 word,
but
> it's not working. I'm obviously doing something wrong.
>
> If you don't have a quick answer to the Wordsmith problem, but know of
> another tool that could help me do just this one little task with a few
> button clicks, I would also appreciate your response!
>
> TIA.
>
> REgards
> Maritza van den Heuvel
>
>
> Research Unit for Experimental Phonology
> STellenbosch University
> South Africa
>
>