[Corpora-List] Spelling variants in english

[John Burger]

Galibert Olivier wrote:

> For speech recognition evaluation issues, I was wondering if a  
> resource exists listing spelling variants where the meaning is the  
> same and the pronunciation identical or close, such as organisation/ 
> organization or manilla/manila. What currently seems to exist in the  
> ASR domain itself is more along the lines of what has been actually  
> encountered in the evaluations and nothing systematic. Do anybody  
> here knows of such lists?

Your first example seems to have to do with British/American spelling  
variation.  For this, I have had some success using the following  
resource:

   http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/

In particular, the VarCon entry on that page is a collection of about  
18,000 British/American/Canadian spelling variants.

- John D. Burger
   MITRE


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