The files in this directory provide tools for conjugating Portuguese verbs and recognizing conjugated forms of these verbs.

• Conjugate.pm is a perl module with low-level tools (see manpage)
• conjug is a perl program that conjugates verbs (see manpage)
• treinar is a perl program that drills the user on conjugation.
• UnConjugate.pm is a perl module with low-level tools.
• unconj is a perl program that regcognizes conjugated verbs.

Quick demo :

perl -e 'use Lingua::PT::Conjugate; print conjug("programar","perfeito")'

programar : perf programei programaste programou programamos programaram

See also : http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~etienne

Requisites :

Perl 5.004 or greater. Maybe less will do.

Perl Module : "treinar" require the Term::ReadLine and

                   Term::ReadKey modules. Term::ReadLine::Perl or
                   Term::ReadLine::Gnu are more friendly.

INSTALLATION :

gunzip Lingua-PT-Conjugate-V.MM.tar.gz tar xvf Lingua-PT-Conjugate-V.MM.tar
cd Lingua-PT-Conjugate-V.MM
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

MAN PAGES :

conjug : Progam conjugating Portuguese verbs.

treinar : Training at conjugation.

unconj : Recognizes conjugated portuguese verbs.

Lingua::PT::UnConjugate : Description of module functions.

Lingua::PT::Conjugate : Description of the conjugation algorithm.

BUG REPORTS:

Mail me at etienne@isr.ist.utl.pt about bug, patches and suggestions.

Copyright (c) 1997,1999 Etienne Grossmann All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

CREDITS

Thanks to all people on usenet and at ISR (http://ww.isr.ist.utl.pt) with whom I have discussed about this module, who have provided advice on conjugation, programming, on naming and on all relevant points.

Thanks to Lupe Christoph <lupe@lupe-christoph.de> from cpan-testers@perl.org and to Miguel Marques <marques@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> for finding and fixing some bugs.

Thanks to Soraia Almeida (salmeida@logos.it) from the Logos project (http://www.logos.it) and Ulisses Pinto and José João Almeida from Projecto Natura (shiva.di.uminho.pt/~jj/pln) who made Ispell available.

A big part of the list of verb infinitives comes from files used in Ispell (shiva.di.uminho.pt/~jj/pln) and in Logos (www.verba.org, www.logos.it). these projects. Some verbs were removed and others added by hand.

A fix for the verb "pedir" was sent by Itai Nahshon <itai@siftology.com>