README: About the Portuguese dictionary. The file in attachement to this document is a Portuguese dictionary for TeX which has been designed to be used in a Macintosh with Excalibur. The Portuguese dictionary was built by the LabEL team (CAUTL ­ IST). It is a part of a larger set of computational linguistic resources that are being developed at LabEL, which include large-coverage electronic dictionaries and grammars to be used in the automatic processing of European Portuguese. Contact: ------- LabEL Centro de Automática da UTL - IST Av. Rovisco Pais 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal E-mail: elisabet@label.ist.utl.pt URL: http://label2.ist.utl.pt/LabEL/LabEL.htm The dictionary was generated by: ----------------------------- Nuno J. Mamede IST/CSTC Av. Rovisco Pais 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal E-mail: Nuno.Mamede@acm.org Distribution ----------- This dictionary is free use and distribution, except for commercial uses. In a reasonable and modest correspondence, we ask its users not to change its name, since this unaltered document will always be enclosed with the dictionary. Installing the Portuguese Dictionary --------------------------------- - If you want Excalibur to recognise the dictionary as soon as the program is launched, keep the dictionary in the main Excalibur folder if possible. If that's not convenient, keep it anywhere you like, but put an alias for it in the main Excalibur folder. - If you want Excalibur to activate the dictionary automatically when the program is launched, first choose the dictionary on the Dictionary menu. Then choose Preferences from the Options menu check the checkbox called "Load currently active dictionaries", and click "Save Now". Version history -------------- The original Portuguese Dictionary (version 02) contains about a million inflected word forms with their grammatical attributes, and has been used for some years now in natural language processing operations. The present version is an adaptation for Excalibur of the original dictionary. If you detect any mistake or any missing words, please let us know at the above e-mail addresses. Your suggestions will be taken into account in future improved versions of the dictionary.