Hi Eleonora,
ge schreef:
Dear Simon,
I think *that* would be throwing away the child. In languages like Dutch
it is so easy to form a new but perfectly valid word by compounding, it
is impossible to include all the possible combinations in a word list.
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All is impossible, I agree. But it is not impossible to find 99.99% and then
you have an acceptable error rate and an acceptable hit rate.
Hmmm... 99.99% means that on average, for every 10.000 words of text
only one word is not in the word list. As new compounds are formed all
the time, this seems improbable.
Also, Dutch spell checking in MS Word, which is generally considered
quite good, appears to use mechanical compounding as it accepts certain
contrived, nonsensical compounds. This at least suggests that it is not
an *obviously* bad idea, for Dutch at least.
In any case I agree that mechanical compounding has serious limitations
to be aware of.
(...)
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Vriendelijke groet,
Simon Brouwer.
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