El dg 13 de 11 de 2011 a les 00:18 +0000, en/na Jimmy O'Regan va
escriure:
> On 12 November 2011 21:15, Kevin Donnelly <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> [SNIP]
> 
> > In effect, you are splitting words artificially (not along linguistically-
> > accepted lines) on input, so that you can put them back together again at
> > lookup.  It would be simpler just to enter and look up a full-form word.
> 
> Given your complaints, elsewhere in the email, about Spanish enclitic
> pronouns, I have to wonder to what, specifically, are you referring
> here?
> 
> As you mention full-form words, perhaps you're not aware that
> paradigms are not obligatory? We could just as easily stick full-form
> lists in XML, and they will compile just as well as entries with
> paradigms. What's more, the compiled binary representations of both
> will be identical.

In fact this is what we do for Maltese verbs. 

> So if your concern is that where there is an entry that consists of,
> say, the string "deput" + the paradigm "bab/y__n", that the runtime
> first looks up "deput", then looks up some abstract representation of
> the paradigm... let me assure you that this is not the case.
> 
> If, on the other hand, you're referring to how we segment something
> like dímelo into decir+me+lo... saying that it's "not along
> linguistically-accepted lines" may be a neat rhetorical device, but
> it's not true.

I think rather he might be referring to, e.g. splitting "man" into "m" +
"an"/"en" or "Haus" into "H" "aus", "äuser", etc. Rather than enclitic
pronouns.

Fran


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