[Lexicog] preparing Shoebox lexicons for publication/ export

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From: "Andy Black" <andy_black at sil.org>
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Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Lexicog] preparing Shoebox lexicons for publication/ export


> Mike Maxwell, in responding to John Koontz, wrote:
>
> > > In working with the Siouan Archives I set up tools to
> > > produce censuses of the polygraphs used to encode the
> > > characters in a 64 character computer character set, and
> > > look at sequences of consonants.  This was intended to
> > > help me locate errors and inconsistencies in the keypunching.
> >
> > By "polygraphs", you mean character n-grams, right?  I was thinking
> > of mentioning s.t. like this for the possible LREC paper.  It seems
> > to me I've seen this idea used somewhere as a poor man's spelling
> > checker, but I can't find any citations.  Anyone?
>
> Check out
> Black, Andy, David Weber, Fred Kuhl, and Kathy Kuhl.  1987.
> Document preparation aids for non-major languages.  Summer Institute of
> Linguistics, Inc.  Dallas, Tx.
>
> It's in the OPAC series, Number 7.  It has several syllable-based spelling
> checking  tools.
>
> --Andy
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