<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Bill Poser</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:billposer2@gmail.com">billposer2@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: 20 February 2015 at 14:16<br>Subject: Re: [RNLD] dictionary methods<br>To: Nick Thieberger <<a href="mailto:thien@unimelb.edu.au">thien@unimelb.edu.au</a>><br>Cc: "<a href="mailto:r-n-l-d@lists.unimelb.edu.au">r-n-l-d@lists.unimelb.edu.au</a>" <<a href="mailto:r-n-l-d@lists.unimelb.edu.au">r-n-l-d@lists.unimelb.edu.au</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div>I wrote a program a while back for generating possible words:<br><br><div style="margin-left:40px"><a href="http://billposer.org/Software/WordGenerator.html" target="_blank">http://billposer.org/Software/WordGenerator.html</a><br></div><br></div>As for methods of finding new words, presumably everybody knows: (a) collect texts and search them for words you don't already have; (b) if the existing dictionary has example sentences, search them for words not already entered as headwords.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Nick Thieberger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thien@unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank">thien@unimelb.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi RNLD list,<div><br></div><div>I'm going to be working with speakers to add words to an existing dictionary of some 2,800 headwords. I'd be interested to hear of methods for finding new words that are not in the dictionary that you may have found useful. I know about Rapid Words collection (<a href="http://www.rapidwords.net/" target="_blank">http://www.rapidwords.net/</a>) and Ron Moe's Dictionary Development Process. </div><div><br></div><div>I'd also like to generate a list of all possible words given the phonotactics and phonemic inventory, does anyone know of any existing systems for doing that?</div><div><br></div><div>I'l summarise responses if you want to write to me off-list.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Nick</div></div>
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