Ted,
It's a good idea to prepare a new release including use locale.
I'll check my Perl version and also the documentation. Maybe, I'll
find a solution to work with Catalan corpus.
Thanks for all your suggestions,
Mercè
> Thanks very much, I'm glad to hear that use locale has helped with
> most of your problems. This entire episode has convinced me that
> rather than waiting for the next release of NSP, I am going to go
> ahead and do a release that simply includes use locale. I'll do that
> this week, which I know doesn't help you but will hopefully help
> others avoid a similar problem.
>
> Regarding your issue with "la geminada", that might be a more general
> Perl locale issue. You might want to check and make sure you are
> running a fairly current version of Perl, and scout around some of the
> Perl documentation to see if this has come up in a more general
> context.
>
> Cordially,
> Ted
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:26 AM, mercevg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Patrick, Ted,
> >
> > I added "use locale;" in line 83 but this can't improve my results:
> > words containing the character "l·l" (like "intel·ligència")are not
> > included in the results list.
> >
> > But it is important to say that I add as a tokens all accents,
> > diaeresis and apostrophes that are used in Catalan corpus and I have
> > had a good results. I think it's the solution for this kind of
> > characters, except for the "l·l" ("l geminada").
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Mercè
> >
> > >
> > > Greetings all,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the very interesting discussion. This is quite helpful.
> > >
> > > Just a short note to confirm that we have not yet added the
> > >
> > > add locale;
> > >
> > > directive to NSP - we haven't had a release in some time, but this
> > will surely
> > > be included when we do. I am thinking it might not be a bad idea to
> > have a
> > > release simply to take care of this. Thanks to Patrick for pointing
> > this out
> > > in the first place, and then reminding us of that earlier
discussion.
> > >
> > > I would be very interested to know if this resolves the problems
> > with Catalan,
> > > French, Spanish, btw. Please do update us and the rest of the
list, as
> > > I suspect
> > > this is a fairly common problem.
> > >
> > > Cordially,
> > > Ted
> > >
> > > On Feb 13, 2008 11:07 AM, mercevg <mercevg@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Patrick,
> > > >
> > > > I have checked the latest version of NSP (v.1.03) and count.pl
> > doesn't
> > > > contain "use locale;". I'll try to add "use locale;" in line 83,
> > maybe
> > > > your suggestion it's my solution.
> > > >
> > > > More or less we have the same problems with accents and other
kind of
> > > > characters working with French and Catalan or Spanish.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thank you very much!
> > > >
> > > > Mercè
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Mercè,
> > > > >
> > > > > I have not checked the latest version of NSP to see if count.pl
> > and the
> > > > > other files contain "use locale;" as I suggested some time
ago. The
> > > > > simple inclusion of such a statement at the beginning of
the Perl
> > > > > scripts fixed the problems I had for French. You can have a
look at
> > > > this
> > > > > for more information :
> > > > >
> > > > > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ngram/message/159
> > > > >
> > > > > Hope this helps...
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Patrick
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ted Pedersen
> > > http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Ted Pedersen
> http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse
>
