On 15:08 Tue 27 Sep , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Gramadoir contains all the features necessary to create a full grammar > checker. It supports affixes and switches, similarly to myspell. However, it > supports only single level affixes, and not the twofold affixes, hunspell > can handle right now.
In theory it can handle any level. For Irish I only use this functionality in a cowardly way - if gramadoir finds a multi-level morphological decomposition of a word that is not explicitly in the lexicon, it gives a warning message like "This word is not in the database but appears to be based on X". So something like "neamh-infhostaithe" (unemployable) which is based on the verb "fostaigh" (employ) with three affixes applied: one suffix (-aigh +aithe), and two prefixes (-f +infh) and (+neamh-) is reported in this way. On the other hand, as I'm sure you know from working on Hungarian, the hard part is organizing the multilevel affixes so that only valid morphological analyses are found (in which case you can eliminate the warning). And I'm not quite there yet for Irish - e.g. reversing the prefixes in the above example would result in "in-neamhfhostaithe" which is nonsense, though you get the same (this time dim-witted) message from gramadoir. > Not well documented are the affixes, the dictionary and the switches, the > connection of dictionary-switches-affixes, and also not well documented is > the rule creation. > > Especially working examples are missing for manual affix creation, > dictionary creation, connection among dictionary-flags-affixes, and for the > manual setting up of grammatical rules. Agreed. I've already started revising the manual based on your comments. Thanks. -Kevin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
