SPECIALIST Lexicon

prevariants

Descriptions:

Prevariants, tell a lower cased form is or could be an acronym or abbreviation.

Fields:

Field	Name	Notes
1	FROM	Inflected variable, lower cased, unique
2	FLAG	0: means FORM is never an abbreviation or acronym (dog) 1: means FORM is sometimes an abbreviation or acronym (aids, yes, bras) 2: means FORM is always an abbreviation or acronym (aca)
3	SCA	Syntactic category (combined value)

Notes:

Many of the ambiguities seems as the result of lower-casing (AIDS/aids). For examples:

dog|0|1152
aids|1|1152
nih|2|128

Algorithm:

Go through input file, Lexicon, and put all Lexical record into a Vector of LexRecord Java object.
Go through all lexical record objects:
- Get lower cased inflectional variants and put into forms. Go through all forms:
  - If the form does not exist in a hash table, preVars:
    => Put formas key in the hash table.
    => Instantiate a preVar include form, cat, abb, and nonAbb
    => put the preVar into the hast table
  - It the form exists in the hast table,
    => Get the preVar out from the hash table
    => Update the preVar for logical or (|) on cat, abb, nonAbb
    => put the preVar into the hast table
- Go through hash table, PreVar, to print:
  field 1: form (inflected, lower cased, unique)
  field 2:
  
  Value Condition Notes
  0 abb = false Never an abbreviation
  1 abb = true and nonAbb = true Sometimes an abbreviation
  2 abb = true and nonAbb = false Always an abbreviation
  
  field 3: category (combined number)
Sort the result (Done by Unix command sort).
Generate ASCII only file