FILE: italian.words VERSION: DEC-SRC-92-Apr-05 EDITOR Jorge Stolfi DEC Systems Research Center AUTHOR OF ORIGINAL WORDLIST David Vincenzetti DESCRIPTION The file italian.words is a list of over 60,000 Italian words. The file has one word per line, and is sorted with sort(1) in plain ASCII collating sequence. The file includes many verbal derivatives and declinations of nouns and adjectives. However, the list is still highly incomplete and inconsistent. In particular, there are no verbal forms with postfix oblique pronouns ("arrivederci"), and practically no aumentatives ("omone", "omaccio"), diminutives ("casina", "casetta", "casella"), superlatives ("carissimo"), adverbial forms ("lentamente"), etc. The accent mark is encoded as a back-quote "`" after the letter, as in "cioe`" (but beware that many accents are missing). The list also contains the elided variants of articles and demonstratives ("dell'", "quest'", "l'") , with the final apostrophe. The file use only the letters [a-z], back-quote, apostrophe, and newline. The file also contains many errors, apparently due to incorrect handling of accented characters at some point in the past. Some of the errors were fixed manually, but many still remain. AUXILIARY LISTS In the same directory as italian.words you will find also: italian.trash A list of incorrect and foreign words removed from the original wordlist. ORIGINAL LISTS The original wordlist from which those files were compiled is listed below. It was obtained by anonymous FTP on 92-Feb-10. [1] from: relay.cs.toronto.edu: /pub/doc/Dictionaries file: words.italian.Z size: 217241 bytes (561981 bytes uncompressed) author: David Vincenzetti COMMENTS: The file words.italian [1] appears to be broken: all accented characters (not just the accents!) are missing or replaced by junk characters. For instance, "volera`" is replaced by "voler". My guess is that the initial copy had accents encoded as ISO 8-bit characters, and it was at some point piped through some piece of software that did not support them. COMPILATION PROCESS The file italian.words is a slightly cleaned-up version of the list words.italian.Z [1]. I fixed some of the most obvious missing-accent bugs by hand, but there are still many left (and quite a few of my "corrections" are themselves incorrect). (NON-)COPYRIGHT STATUS To the best of my knowledge, all the files I used to build these wordlists were available for public distribution and use, at least for non-commercial purposes. I have confirmed this assumption with the authors of the lists, whenever they were known. Therefore, it is safe to assume that the wordlists in this package can also be freely copied, distributed, modified, and used for personal, educational, and research purposes. (Use of these files in commercial products may require written permission from DEC and/or the authors of the original lists.) Whenever you distribute any of these wordlists, please distribute also the accompanying README file. If you distribute a modified copy of one of these wordlists, please include the original README file with a note explaining your modifications. Your users will surely appreciate that. (NO-)WARRANTY DISCLAIMER These files, like the original wordlists on which they are based, are still very incomplete, uneven, and inconsitent, and probably contain many errors. They are offered "as is" without any warranty of correctness or fitness for any particular purpose. Neither I nor my employer can be held responsible for any losses or damages that may result from their use.