[austechwriter] Query: Honorifics and other dotted abbreves / sentences
- From: "Steve Hudson" <cruddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Austechwriters" <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:56:15 +1000
I am putting the finishing touches on a sentence finder for Word. I need a
list of _common_ abbreviations that are commonly 'dotted' with an
immediately suceeding period.
I imagine the .mil kiddies have a whole bunch of honorifics like Lt. Gen.
and the like, so I figured the best bet was to ask those people with access
to docs with them to suggest some 3 character or larger common dotted
abbreves.
I am planning on having specialist 'dictionaries' of these terms
'hard-coded' in as I can't see the list being THAT extensive to warrant the
use of an external config file, unlike Trivial Words. The collection of
words is exposed to the API user to modify if required.
In writing this, I came up with my 'rules of thumb' for sentence breaks.
Perhaps some of our cunning linguists can suggest modifications.
'Rule 1: Sentence must end with a .?! or elipses, or any combination thereof
'Rule 2: Sentence must end more than 1 char into doc
'Rule 3: Sentence must end with a lower case character
'Rule 4: Must be succeeded by a space, double quote or a ctrl char
'Rule 5: Last word of sentence cannot be two chars long with first char
capped
' to take care of common abbreviations, Mr. Dr. Lt. etc
'Rule 6: Last word of sentence cannot be a dotted abbrev
Steve Hudson
Word Heretic, Sydney, Australia
Tricky stuff with Word or words for you.
Email: steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Products: http://www.geocities.com/word_heretic/products.html
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