Marcus Uneson, maarcus.uneson@ling.lu.se NOTE: delete one of the 'a':s
Dept of Linguistics, Lund University
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Word jumper

This program will depart from a user-specified word in any of its supported languages, turn it into another valid word by replacing, deleting or adding one letter, and then repeat that process until a given target word is reached (if at all possible). The lowest number of operations needed is calculated, and all possible paths of that length are returned. The program may also be used to choose a path of unspecified length at random. A third possibility is to let Wordjumper use the start word also as its target word; in that case, it will run through all links of the entire network without repeating itself. Optionally, the program will only consider words of the same length (i. e., it will not add or delete letters).

Q & A
A few words on networks of symmetrical relations


START WORD:

Find the shortest path from start word to target word
Find a random path from start word to target word
Run through the entire network from start word back to start word (target word is not considered) NOTE: OUTPUT MAY BE VERY LARGE

Consider all words in wordlist
Only consider words of the same length as start and target words (which in that case must be equal)

TARGET WORD:

English
Swedish

Marcus Uneson, September 2002