[Corpora-List] American and British English spelling converter

[Erik Velldal]

On 11/2/06, Martin Krallinger <martink at cnb.uam.es> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I was looking for some simple tool (preferable in Python) which
> is able to do automatic conversion of texts (or words) from
> British English (UK) to American (US)  English and vice versa.
> (Example:  realize <-> realise)
>
> This seems to be an easy task, but I could not find any ready to use
> stand alone tool capable of performing this task.


Hi Martin,
Kevin Atkinson maintains a set of Perl scripts under the name VarCon to
convert between American, British, and Canadian spellings and vocabulary:
http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/


Cheers,
Erik

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Erik Velldal
University of Oslo
Department of Informatics