At 4:29 PM -0500 6/11/01, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
>What Geoff is describing as a bug in the Endings algorithm is actually a
>deliberate change, submitted by Steve Arlow back in June 1999. It was to
>prevent the -ness suffix from being stripped on words like witness, and then
>having the the word "wit" expanded with a number of inappropriate suffixes.
I remember the deliberate change. I'm just not sure how to resolve
the whole issue.
>In either case, I think Steve Arlow's patch is more far-reaching than any
>of us thought before. It seems to me that this should be optional, unless
>we can find a smarter way of doing this.
I've been trying to come up with a smarter way, and I can't. So I'm
suggesting something like endings_lookup_roots that will also look up
root words. Even so, I don't know how useful it is--it seems like
there have to be better ways of constructing the affix rules!
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-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/
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