From hyphen@ibmpcug.co.uk Sat Apr 16 08:23:04 1994 Received: from oxmail by black.ox.ac.uk; Sat, 16 Apr 1994 08:23:03 +0100 Received: from kate.ibmpcug.co.uk by oxmail.ox.ac.uk with SMTP (PP) id <17258-0@oxmail.ox.ac.uk>; Sat, 16 Apr 1994 08:22:52 +0100 To: pcl@ox.ac.uk Subject: croatian readme Organization: The PC User Group, UK Cc: Date: Sat, 16 Apr 94 8:22:43 BST From: D Fawthrop Sender: hyphen@ibmpcug.co.uk Message-Id: <9404160822.aa25892@kate.ibmpcug.co.uk> Status: RO This is a list of 28,000 Croatian words collected in early 1994 from Hrvatski-Vjesnik a listserver for Croatian news in America. We believe that the quality of text used was good, and therefore spelling errors are rare. One obvious problem however is that these words are in "Computer Croatian" without accents or the special characters. Each word is followed by the frequency of occurrence in the text examined, in a pale imitation of the Brown corpus. This was performed using two utilities which I have placed in the Public Domain "one word" and "uniq_num" which and are to be found in the directory "utilities". With the split up of the former Yugoslavia there is a linguistic war going on in parallel with the shooting war. The language is therefore diverging rapidly from Serbo-croat. We have done some rough and ready tests against a list of Serbian words and found significant differences between the two. This is the results of a project which only required some tens of thousands of words, which is now complete. Should anyone want to continue the project, good luck, get on with it! Hrvatski-Vjesnik contains text from many authors and on many subjects, there are many more words available. Dave Fawthrop Hyphen House, 8 Cooper Grove, Shelf, Halifax, HX3 7RF, England. Phone/Fax/Answer : +44 274 691092 - God loved the World so much that he gave his only Son, so that - - anyone who believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life. -