Corpora: Wordsmith question

[Tadeusz Piotrowski]

In the Windows environment there are a number of applications that allow
one to compare lists. There is a diff one for Windows, and there is the
file compare (fc) utility (far more versatile in Win NT and later).
There are also some tools inside other applications. I can recommend
Windows Commander (a sort of shell), which is very clear in showing what
the difference is, TextPad also shows you the differences. You can even
use Word, or a comparable word-editing package, to compare two texts,
including lists.
Tadeusz Piotrowski

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-corpora at lists.uib.no
> [mailto:owner-corpora at lists.uib.no] On Behalf Of Rod de Lima-Lopes
> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 7:05 PM
> 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
> --------------------
> R.E. de Lima-Lopes
> http://rod.do.sapo.pt
> GNU/Linux User # 182240
> 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
> >
> >
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