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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 was started motivated by the 1990 Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement, and has produced an updated European Portuguese spellchecker dictionary, converters of text from pre-1990 to post-1990 Brazilian and European Portuguese, a Portuguese variant classifier and a lexical comparison tool.

Tools

  • OAKB - Orthographic Agreement Knowledge Base: a table containing all the information about the words changes.
  • Bigorna Kit (full version) - A distribution containing all the tools contained in Bigorna. This tools may also be individualy downloaded as well:
    • jSpell.pt.AO - jSpell's European Portuguese dictionary updated according to Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement rules.
    • pt2ptao - European Portuguese converter.
    • br2brao - Brazilian Portuguese converter.
    • whichPT - Portuguese variant classifier.
    • lexdiff - Lexical comparison tool.

Documentation

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank to Sapo which partially funded this project.

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