British-American Translator
I never really realised (<- this word being an example) how often I have been misspelling words in Canada due to the American spell-check system. However, in any respect, I thought this could launch a minor project to create a translator to convert not only the different spellings of words from British to American english, but also convert different terms (for instance, pants in the UK are usually call trousers!). There are translators that exist like this already, but that’s no fun! So even know I have already generated some code for this and basically have the project working(some minor bugs) I am gonna create a formal project here.
Project name: British-American Translator
Purpose: Design a program which translates spellings between British and American english and interchange common terms for equivalent entities
Inputs: CSV with row 1 as source language and row 2 as destination language, phrase to translate
Analysis: Analyse word and interchange equivalent words and correct spelling to correct dialect (*ise->*ize)
Outputs: Translated phrase with new spellings and equivalent words replaced for dialect
Well, there is the project, I am gonna create a public project on GitHub for this sorts of projects and I will provide the link here. As of writing this, the program can take in single translation words, or takes in a CSV(bulk import function) with a specified source and destination language and creates two dictionaries which are modified simultaneously(UK key, US key). The dictionaries keys map to an array, so the word in either dialect can support multiple alternative translations for a single word. Currently how I handle multiple translations of the same word is just to select one at random. I will note that this is not a highly intelligent translator, in that it analyses the sentence, it simply replaces equivalent words. The translate functionality takes in a sentence and looks for specific spelling differentiations, and also replaces equivalent words in the manor i describe above. There are some issues currently which exist, such as the words are split simply by spaces, so punctuation is included when comparing words which obviously breaks the equivalent word functionality and makes it default to just printing the string how it was inputted. This maps out most of the functionality so far. Again, this is just a side project so bugs are OKAY in my book, but some refinement and robustness might follow.
I wanna extend a thanks http://www.englishclub.com/ for the valuable information about the difference between British and American english.
Below is the link for the source code on github
https://github.com/kedavey/Open-Source-Projects/tree/master/Python/British-American%20Translator
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