On Saturday 27 March 2004 02:24, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Chris Hornbaker wrote: > > On Saturday 27 March 2004 01:50, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > > > On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Chris Hornbaker wrote: > > > > Would be great. Of course, I'd have to be able to define what a > > > > permissible consonant pair is. Also, being able to define /where/ > > > > words can connect at would be a big help in controlling compound > > > > words. > > > > > > By where do you mean controlling which words can be combined? If so > > > maybe, if it doesn't get too complicated. > > > > I'm not sure. In the word list would allow for the most precision, but > > I'm not sure how that would affect other things. > > I can easily store a tag with the word. So you can say add rules such as > a valid compound word is: > A + B but not B + C. > That can be done fairly easily. provided there are not too many > categories. I am thinking up to 250 or so.
Alright. (Semi-following the 'special' field's format below) To start, if I could exclude some letters (spefically ' and y, for this language), then that'll pave the way for other conditions. compound-words compound-test-exclude ' y Then I could define where they generally connect: compound-conn CVC/CV *- CVC/C ** CCVCV *- CCVC ** CVC ** CVV ** CCV ** That would be a great start for me and would allow me to say that: The word bloti and its short-forms have possible connection points at: -bloti -blot- -lot- -blo- -lo'i- and this should exclude articles (like, pavono (140)) from being seen as a compound word (technically is it, but none of it fits the compound word connection profiles, which allows it to be better handled as run-together words, which is most appropriate in that case). Or I'm thinking out loud and should hush-up. :-) -- Christopher Hornbaker Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join the Free State Project! http://www.freestateproject.org "Liberty in Our Lifetime" Was I helpful? Let me know! http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=Jilks _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
