It's used in apertium-eng to select between the different analyses of -ing.
The tricky part is that you need to put weights on all the relevant entries
because the default weight is 0 and the lowest weight comes first (which I
definitely should have mentioned in the first email).

Daniel

On Thu, Apr 9, 2026 at 4:45 PM Aure Séguier <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Thanks but it doesn't work. Adding the "w" attribute had no effect. I
> tried changing the order of the words in the monodix too, but it didn't
> change anything.
>
> Is the "w" attribute used in all the monolingual repositories ? I didn't
> see anything like this in apertium-oci.
>
> Is there any other way to choose a "default" word, or to understand how
> Apertium chooses it ?
>
> Thanks
> Aure SÉGUIER
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> Le 09/04/2026 à 15:58, Daniel Swanson a écrit :
>
> Subsequent modules will select whichever analysis is listed first. You can
> control the order with weights, so an entry with <e w="0"> will appear
> before an entry that begins <e w="1">.
>
> Daniel
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2026 at 8:15 AM Aure Séguier <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi !
>>
>> I would like to know how Apertium chooses between two potential
>> categories for a word when it's not disambiguated in the rules. For
>> instance, I have this :
>> $ ^còsta/còsta<adv>/costar<vblex><pri><p3><sg>/¬còsta<pr><REMOVE:2151>
>> /¬còsta<n><f><sg><REMOVE:1987>/¬costar<vblex><imp><p2><sg><REMOVE:1016>
>>
>> After the elimination of the three last possibilities, how Apertium will
>> choose between the two first ? Is it a way to choose the "default" value
>> when the rules leave a doubt ?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
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