Corpora: Iggy Roca's query about retrieving from a word list

[Geoffrey Sampson]

My immediate response to Iggy's query is that for the first few things
he asks about, if his list has one word per line (or can be reformatted to
have one word per line), searching for "all words that end in a vowel", or
"which have a vowel 3rd letter from end", etc are very easily done with
grep, so that it would be bootless to look at more out-of-the-way software.
Clearly grep alone will not say where the syllable boundaries come, but if
this is decidable mechanically at all, presumably it would be easy to write
a routine to insert syllable-boundary syllables, and then use grep as before.


G.R. Sampson, Professor of Natural Language Computing

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