====== Bigorna - A Toolkit for Orthography Migration Challenges ======

===== What is Bigorna? =====
Bigorna is an open source project which aims to develop tools to help in general orthography migration challenges.

It started motivated by the 1990 Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement (**PLOA 1990**), and currently has produced an updated European Portuguese spellchecker dictionary, text converters from pre-1990 to post-1990 Brazilian and European Portuguese, a Portuguese variant classifier and a lexical comparison tool. Currently, all these tools are Unix-only.
===== Tools =====
==== PLOA 1990 ====

    * {{https://natura.di.uminho.pt/svn/main/dicionarios/bigorna/downloads/oakb|OAKB}} - Orthographic Agreement Knowledge Base: a table containing all the information about the words changes. Derived from the list kindly provided by {{http://www.portaldalinguaportuguesa.org/|Portal da Lingua Portuguesa}}.


    * {{https://natura.di.uminho.pt/svn/main/dicionarios/bigorna/downloads/pt2ptao.tgz|pt2ptao}} - European Portuguese converter for PLOA 1990.
    * {{https://natura.di.uminho.pt/svn/main/dicionarios/bigorna/downloads/br2brao.tgz|br2brao}} - Brazilian Portuguese converter for PLOA 1990.
    * {{https://natura.di.uminho.pt/svn/main/dicionarios/bigorna/downloadsgs/whichPT.tgz|whichPT}} - Portuguese variant classifier.
    * The updated version of the dictionary was later merged with the lastest version of Jspell's Portuguese dictionary, and propagated to other formats as well. All versions can be found in [[dicionarios:main|Dicionários]].

==== Orthography Migration ====

    * {{https://natura.di.uminho.pt/svn/main/dicionarios/bigorna/downloads/lexdiff.tgz|lexdiff}} - Lexical comparison tool.

==== Packages ====
    * {{https://natura.di.uminho.pt/svn/main/dicionarios/bigorna/downloads/bigorna-kit-base.tgz|Bigorna Kit (base version)}} - A distribution for common users (includes installers for pt2ptao, br2brao and whichPT)
    * {{https://natura.di.uminho.pt/svn/main/dicionarios/bigorna/downloads/bigorna-kit-full.tgz|Bigorna Kit (full version)}} - A distribution for advanced users, including all the files needed to build pt2ptao, br2brao, whichPT and lexdiff.
===== Documentation =====
     * {{https://natura.di.uminho.pt/svn/main/dicionarios/bigorna/trunk/relatorio/summerbits.pdf|Technical Report}} - A technical report written in November 2009 (PT).
     * {{http://alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt/~albie/publications/bigorna-lrec2010.pdf|Bigorna - a toolkit for orthography migration challenges}} - A paper presented in {{http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/|LREC 2010}}.
===== Links =====
==== Converters ====
  * {{http://www.flip.pt/FLiPOnline/ConversorparaoAcordoOrtogr%C3%A1fico/tabid/566/Default.aspx|Flip}} (Priberam)
  * {{http://www.portuguesexato.pt/|Português Exato}} (Porto Editora)
  * {{http://www.portaldalinguaportuguesa.org/index.php?action=lince|Lince}} (Portal da Língua Portuguesa)

==== Dictionaries ====
  * {{http://www.infopedia.pt/pesquisa?qsFiltro=29|Infopédia}}
  * {{http://www.priberam.pt/dlpo/dlpo.aspx|Dicionário Priberam}}
  * {{http://aulete.uol.com.br/site.php?mdl=aulete_digital|iDicionário Aulete}}
  * {{http://www.universal.pt/main.php?id=239&p=17&s=37|Universal}}







===== Acknowledgements =====
The authors would like to thank to [[http://www.sapo.pt|Sapo]] which partially funded [[http://softwarelivre.sapo.pt/projects/bigorna/|this project]], and {{http://priberam.pt|Priberam}}, {{http://www.portoeditora.pt|Porto Editora}} and {{www.portaldalinguaportuguesa.org|Portal da Lingua Portuguesa}} for their kind cooperation.