[RNLD List] dictionary methods

Bill Poser billposer at alum.mit.edu
Fri Feb 25 05:19:18 UTC 2022


There is a program of nearly the same name that does something similar but
different. It generates possible words from a specification of syllable
structure.

http://billposer.org/Software/WordGenerator.html

Bill


On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 6:21 PM Nick Thieberger <thien at unimelb.edu.au>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Just returning to this list item of 7 years ago. There is a new version of
> the WordGenerator tool (1.2) here:
> https://paradisec.org.au/wordgen/wg.php
>
> This takes a list of existing words in a language and generates other
> possible words, with a number of settings you can select to alter the
> characteristics of the created set.
>
> There are two inbuilt example sets you can select  (check the 'sample'
> box) then 'generate'.
>
> This was written for me by Andreas Scherbakov.
>
> Nick
>
>
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 at 14:08, Nick Thieberger <thien at unimelb.edu.au>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi RNLD list,
>>
>> I'm going to be working with speakers to add words to an existing
>> dictionary of some 2,800 headwords. I'd be interested to hear of methods
>> for finding new words that are not in the dictionary that you may have
>> found useful. I know about Rapid Words collection (
>> http://www.rapidwords.net/) and Ron Moe's Dictionary Development
>> Process.
>>
>> I'd also like to generate a list of all possible words given the
>> phonotactics and phonemic inventory, does anyone know of any existing
>> systems for doing that?
>>
>> I'l summarise responses if you want to write to me off-list.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Nick
>>
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