Hi Simon, On 2006-07-03 at 20:01 +0200 Simon Brouwer sent off:
Thanks for this useful explanation! I will take your recommendations to heart when implementing compounding in the Dutch spell checker files. Did you do the checking manually, or did you use some software for this?
I did the checking manually, I don't think there's a way to do this "trustworthy automatically" :-). But to make your work more efficient in the beginning you might do this: take a big list of compound words and sort them; look for lines with words which start with "lots of same characters" - if you find the 2000 most frequent compoundable words you probably find >90% of all used compound words. This is what was my experience :-)
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