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Lists, add-ons, terms, and the like ...
OK crew --
we're working on gathering locations -- in Liaden ebooks or chapbooks or in novels -- of dictionaries, lists of names and places, reference type things .... I know this sounds simple, but I'm at the office packing again, and Sharon's home writing (did you see her list of "weird words" from Ghost Ship? ... http://rolanni.livejournal.com/526774.html ) and honestly, we have had so many editions that it *is* hard to find them all.
All help is welcome...
Thanks!
And oh yeah... we have a beautiful cold blue-sky day here. Who has my early February blizzard, anyway?
we're working on gathering locations -- in Liaden ebooks or chapbooks or in novels -- of dictionaries, lists of names and places, reference type things .... I know this sounds simple, but I'm at the office packing again, and Sharon's home writing (did you see her list of "weird words" from Ghost Ship? ... http://rolanni.livejournal.com/526774.html ) and honestly, we have had so many editions that it *is* hard to find them all.
All help is welcome...
Thanks!
And oh yeah... we have a beautiful cold blue-sky day here. Who has my early February blizzard, anyway?
Software tools
(Anonymous) 2010-02-10 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)If you have electronic versions of the texts, I can first scan them for any non-dictionary words, and generate small snippets showing the context in which those words are used.
Slightly harder, but still doable, is to look for apparent proper nouns on the basis of capitalization; I expect to get some false positives that will need weeding out.
Alternatively, if you have a friendly software helper, put me in touch with them, and I can discuss tools and methods with them. The actual tool that I would use is proprietary, but there are good free alternatives.