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 here at ISR 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 from cpan-testers@perl.org and to Miguel Marques 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