SW-HamNoSys

[Steve Slevinski]

On 7/3/12 8:30 AM, Dan Parvaz wrote:
> It sounds like the user-contributed corpora could use a little
> "smoothing" in the form of a normalization step (manual, automated, or a bit of
> each) that standardizes the orthography a bit for purposes of concordance-
> building, search, etc.

Hi Dan,

Very true.  I am almost ready to add normalization functions to 
SignPuddle.  They will be a combination of manual and automated.

Last year I had a breakthrough with approximate searching for 
SignWriting.  Given any sign, the search routines can find all other 
signs that are variant spellings based on position and order.  The 
searching uses regular expressions and is very fast.

It will be up to the end user to decide if the signs returned from the 
search routines are meaningful variant that should be left alone or if 
the signs returned are meaningless variants that should be normalized to 
a common spelling.

Regards,
-Steve