Lingua::EN::VarCon 1.00

VarCon is a data set provided as part of the Word List project.

It contains a number of lists and tables of words that can be used to help automatically convert the English language between the differing spellings of its local dialects (American, British, Canadian).

In an age where Spanish application translations are common, but finding a British, Canadian or Australian translation (as used by FAR more people than American English) can be almost impossible, and when "English" on the internet is increasingly seeming to be "American", it is hoped that by providing access to the raw data in a variety of different ways (optimised for different application types with different load profiles) it will encourage developers to integrate support for automated dialect translation into internationalisation toolkits, and thus into many applications.

METHODS

For this initial release, only methods to locate the files are provided.

Additional access methods will be provided later, or on request.

abbc_file

The abbc_file method returns the location of the abbc.tab file from the VarCon data set.

also_file

The also_file method returns the location of the variant-also.tab file from the VarCon data set.

infl_file

The infl_file method returns the location of the variant-infl.tab file from the VarCon data set.

wroot_file

The infl_file method returns the location of the variant-wroot.tab file from the VarCon data set.

voc_file

The voc_file method returns the location of the voc.tab file from the VarCon data set.