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diff --git a/JLanguageTool/src/resource/en/agid-readme.txt b/JLanguageTool/src/resource/en/agid-readme.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..be21117 --- /dev/null +++ b/JLanguageTool/src/resource/en/agid-readme.txt @@ -0,0 +1,340 @@ +Automatically Generated Inflection Database (AGID) + +January 3, 2003 +Revision 4 + +Copyright 2000-2003 by Kevin Atkinson <kevina@gnu.org> + +The file "infl.txt" is an automatically created database of the +inflected forms of words from a rather large word list. + +The latest version can be found at http://aspell.sourceforge.net/wl/. + +Entries are in the following form. + +<word><sp><pos>[?]:<sp><inflected forms> +<word> := [[A-Za-z']]+ +<sp> := <literal space> +<pos> := [[VNA]] +<inflected forms> := <inflected form><sp>|<sp>...<sp>|<sp><inflected form> +<inflected form> := <individual entry>,<sp>...,<sp><individual entry> +<individual entry> := <word><word tags>[<sp><variant level>][<sp>{<explanation>}] +<word tags> := [~][<][!][?] +<explanation> := [<explanation text>][:<distinguishing number>] +<explanation text> := [[A-Za-z'_/]]+ + +where stuff between [ ] is optional, stuff between [[ ]] indicate a +range of possible characters for that entry. If a [[ ]] is followed by +a + it means the entry can consist of one or more characters in +that range. { } are literal. + +A typical entry will look like + +WORD V: WORDed, WORed 2, WORD {EXPL} | WORDing, WORing 2 | WORDs + +<pos> is V for verb, N for noun, or A or adjective or adverb. +If <pos> is followed by a ? that means that the part-of-speech was not +in the part-of-speech database however the inflected forms of the word +where found in the word list. + +The inflected forms are in the following order for verbs (except for +a few special verbs): + <past tense> [<past participle>] <-ing form> <-s form> +and for adjective or adverbs: + <-er form> <-est form> +Each form is seperated by a ' | '. + +An absence of a variant level implies a variant level of 0. Two words +with the same whole number variant level are considered almost equal +with a slight preference given to the entry with a lower number. A +whole number variant level of 1 indicates a less preferred form of the +word. A whole number variant level of 2 indicates any number of +things. It could mean that it is from an archaic use of the word, or +a variant that is hardly ever used or for an extremely obscure meaning +of the word, or finally it could mean that the word looked like it +could possibly be a inflected form of the base word but I could not +find any evidence for them. If two words have the same variant level +and explanation it means that both inflections were found and the +script was not sure which one to use. + +Sometimes the inflected form to use depends on the meaning of the +word. If this is the case the two entries will have different +explanations. If the distinction can be made in a few words it is +given with underscores (_) replacing spaces. Otherwise the two +entries will have different distinguishing numbers. + +A < after a word means that there is a good change that this is an +inflected form of the word, a ~ after a word means that there is a +slight chance. A ! after a word indicates that the word is likely an +inflections of a similar word (generally one ending in e) and not the +current word. A ? after a word means that the word was not in the +word list but if it was it would be considered an inflected form of +the base word. + +This verson is now almost as accurate as Alan Beale's 2of12id file +distributed with the "Unofficial Alternate 12 Dicts Package" for the +base words which have an entry in 2of12id.txt with a few notable +exceptions. The most obvious one is the "person" entry. Alan Beale +considers, based on what his sources have told him, that "persons" is +the proper plural for "person" and "people" is considered a variant. +I however disagree and decided to consider "people" the primary form +and "persons" as the sligtly less perfered variant based on my own +experence and http://www.quinion.com/words/usagenotes/un-person.htm +which says: + + The normal plural of person was persons ... However, there is + evidence from Chaucer onwards that some writers chose to use people + as a plural for person, not only in the generalised sense of 'an + uncountable or indistinct mass of individuals' but also in specific + countable cases. ... Though persons survives, it does so largely in + formal or legal contexts ...From the evidence, it seems that the + trend towards using people instead of persons is accelerating and + that it may not be so long before persons vanishes from the language + except in certain set phrases. + +I considered making "persons" a variant (level 1), but I decided +against it as "persons" is for the most part perfectly acceptable and +probably considered the proper plural to use by some. + +I also considered the -people ending the primary form for all words +ending in -person such as salesperson and the -persons entry the +slightly less preferred variant in spite of what 2of12id.txt said. + +In some cases a variant of level 2 is listed in AGID where it is not +listed at all in 2of12id. In general this means that the script came +up with the possibility and, in spite it not being listed in 2of12id, +it seams logical to me. + +The final case occurs when a word has two or more -s inflections used +as both noun and verb forms, and these forms would have different +variant levels in 2of12id. For example: + ditto N: dittos, dittoes 1 + ditto V: dittoed | dittoing | dittos, dittoes 0.1 +For purely technical reasons and because I do not feel that it matters +too much I have made the variant levels for the -s forms the same. For +example the ditto entries became: + ditto N: dittos, dittoes 0.1 + ditto V: dittoed | dittoing | dittos, dittoes 0.1 +The choice of the variant levels I used is somewhat arbitrary but I in +general went with the lower level. + +Fell free to send me corrections to correct any of these questionable +words. I am mostly interested in the preferred form of the word when +the script was not able to decide or words marked with < or ~ that are +valid inflected forms of the words. + +Also included in this version are the files "variant_0.lst", +"variant_1.lst", "variant_2.lst", and "variant.tab". The files +"variant_#.lst" include all of the inflected forms at the given level +found in infl.txt which are not generally considered to be some other +common word. The file variant.tab contains a cross reference of all +alternate forms of inflected form of words. The file variant-wroot.tab +is like variant.tab except that it also included the root form of the +word. + +Words are in mixed case but all accents have been striped thus words +like café are instead cafe. + +The file "variant" contains a list of alternate inflections. + +The file "irregular" contains extra information where a noun or verb +has irregular inflected forms. + +The file "dontuse" contains a list of words not to consider an +inflected form of a word if more than one inflected form of a word is +found. + +The files "prefixes" and "suffixes" contains a list of common prefixes +and suffixes respectfully. These files are used by the script to +produce inflected forms for words that end in a word in the +"irregular" file. If the beginning appears in the word list or the +prefixes file and the ending appears in the irregular file I also +consider <prefix>+<irregular inflections>. If the prefix is 3 letters +or more OR appears in the prefixes file and the suffix is 4 letters or +more OR appears in the suffixes file I consider it the most likely +choice, otherwise I consider it as a possible candidate but not the +most likely choice. + +The file "make-infl" is the actual Perl script used to create the +data base. + +The file "find-var" is the Perl script used to create the variant +lists and cross reference file. + +The file "make-all" was used to create the word list used by the script. + +CHANGES: + +From Revision 3a to 4 (January 2, 2003) + + Added variant-wroot.tab + Update find-var script to also produce variant-wroot.tab. + +From Revision 3 to 3a (April 04, 2001) + + Fixed a bug in the find-var script which caused some common + words which are variants for one usage of a word but not + variants for any other common usage to improperly appear in + the variant list. + +From Revision 2 to 3 (January 28, 2001) + + Changed the format of infl.txt to something which is slightly harder + to read but a lot less ambiguous and easier to parse. + + Update various files, including the actual script, so that the + output that is almost as accurate of Alan Beale 2of12id.txt + + Eliminated Moby Words and ABLE from the word list used by the script + to give more accurate results. + +From Revision 1 to 2 (August 18, 2000) + + Classified variants as either almost equal, also used, or + secondary. + + The / is now used to indicate equal variants. "/?" is now used to + mean what "/" used to be. + + Lots of additional rules added which greatly improved the results. + +COPYRIGHT AND SOURCE: + +The final product is under the following copyright, as well as any +copyrights mentioned below. + + Copyright 2000-2003 by Kevin Atkinson + + Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this database, + the associated scripts, the output created form the scripts and its + documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, + provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and + that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in + supporting documentation. Kevin Atkinson makes no representations + about the suitability of this array for any purpose. 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The Moby part-of-speech is in the +public domain: + + The Moby lexicon project is complete and has + been place into the public domain. Use, sell, + rework, excerpt and use in any way on any platform. + + Placing this material on internal or public servers is + also encouraged. The compiler is not aware of any + export restrictions so freely distribute world-wide. + + You can verify the public domain status by contacting + + Grady Ward + 3449 Martha Ct. + Arcata, CA 95521-4884 + + grady@netcom.com + grady@northcoast.com + + +The word list used is a combination of several word list: + +1) The ENABLE2K word lists which is in the public domain: + + The ENABLE master word list, WORD.LST, is herewith formally + released into the Public Domain. Anyone is free to use it or + distribute it in any manner they see fit. No fee or registration + is required for its use nor are "contributions" solicited (if you + feel you absolutely must contribute something for your own peace + of mind, the authors of the ENABLE list ask that you make a + donation on their behalf to your favorite charity). This word + list is our gift to the Scrabble community, as an alternate to + "official" word lists. Game designers may feel free to + incorporate the WORD.LST into their games. Please mention the + source and credit us as originators of the list. Note that if + you, as a game designer, use the WORD.LST in your product, you + may still copyright and protect your product, but you may *not* + legally copyright or in any way restrict redistribution of the + WORD.LST portion of your product. This *may* under law restrict + your rights to restrict your users' rights, but that is only + fair. + +2) All of the word lists except ABLE.LST in the ENABLE2K Supplemnt + which consists of: + + 2DICTS.LST ALSO.LST LETTERS.LST OSPDADD.LST UCACR.LST + LCACR.LST NOPOS.LST PLURALS.LST UPPER.LST + + All of these word lists are also in the public domain. + +3) The list of signature words from the YAWL package which is in the + public domain. + +4) The UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary which in under the following + copyright: + + Copyright (c) J Ross Beresford 1993-1999. All Rights Reserved. + + The following restriction is placed on the use of this + publication: if The UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary is used + in a software package or redistributed in any form, the + copyright notice must be prominently displayed and the text + of this document must be included verbatim. + + There are no other restrictions: I would like to see the + list distributed as widely as possible. + +5) Some extra words found in the Part-Of-Speech database that was not + found in any of the above word lists. + +6) Words found in the Jargon File Word List package, available at + http://aspell.sourceforge.net/wl/, which is in the Public Domain. + +7) Words in 2of12id.txt not in any of the word lists above. 2of12id is + indirectly derived from all the above sources and most of the word + lists from the Moby Words package: + + 10196pla.ces 113809of.fic 21986na.mes 256772co.mpo 354984si.ngl + 3897male.nam 4160offi.cia 4946fema.len 6213acro.nym 74550com.mon + + The Moby Word package, like the Part-Of-Speech database is in the + public domain. + +8) And finally some extra words that I added myself. These words can be + found in the file "extra-words" + +The "dontuse", "irregular", and "variant" file was created by me +(Kevin Atkinson) from numerous sources. + |