2016-04-06 14:55 GMT+02:00 Juan Martorell <juan.martor...@gmail.com>:
> But more important are some derivatives, both suffixed and prefixed. > Hi Juan, I can tell you my experience in these points. > To transform one adjective into an adverb, in English you use the suffix > `-ly` and in Spanish you use the suffix `-mente`: > > Equal --> equally > Igual --> igualmente > I found 18340 candidates for suffixation in the Spanish dictionary for this > particular case. > > This is fine. In Catalan it is done in the tagger. Every "femenine/neuter adjective/participle" + "-ment" is tagged as an adverb. A few malformed or undesired words could appear. > Same for diminutives, augmentatives and superlatives. Depending on the > zone these may vary, but if you want to be fully inclusive > <https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminutivo>, you have to include 17 > diminutives, both genders; 9 augmentatives, both genders; 1 superlative, > both genders excluding the irregular forms > <https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superlativo>. They apply to the same > ~18000 candidates. They are widely used in writing, so it is worth to > include them. > You can try to implement it in the same way as the adverbs with suffix -mente. In Catalan is not implemented this way, because there are too many problems. Instead, the most frequent words, one by one, are added to the dictionary. > It is quite common to attach some pronouns to the verb thus including > information about direct and/or indirect object, or passive/impersonal > voice. > As said before, this is implemented in the Catalan tokenizer. In Spanish there are fewer combinations, but you need to remove the diacritics (and check if they are correct). > Other derivations imply prefixing like *re-* or *anti-*. These can be > applied to both verbs (all conjugations), adjetives and nouns: *reiniciar* > , *antiperson**al*, *recalificar*, *reincidente*, *reforestar*. Some of > this are present in the dictionary, some are not, l will not include them > into the account but it may be relevant. > I have tried this one, but I gave up almost all prefixes because there were too many unexpected problemes. The only remaning prefix is auto- + verb. Regards, Jaume Ortolà
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