On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 09:20:55PM -0500, Benjamin Coates wrote:
> >From Mr.Bad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>>> "AV" == Aaron Voisine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > AV> with user defined keywords, you have to concern yourself with
> > AV> plurals and other forms of root words. If a document is listed
> > AV> under the keyword "cars" and a user searches for "car", they
> > AV> won't find it.
> >
> >Yeah, but also if people search on "automobilo" and there's a keyword
> >"automobiloj", they're probably not going to hit, either.
> >
> >~Mr. Bad
>
> Esperanto discrimination once again rears its ugly head... If you want a real
> challenge, try algorithmically matching arabic plurals.
English is a pretty horrible language in all respects. It has a
horrible spelling system, it has horrible grammar that is not too far
from freeform except that it is not freeform at all, and everything
has a shitload of synonyms, except that they only look like synonyms
at the surface and really have subtly but very importantly different
connotations. In some respects, the English spelling system might be
a good thing because it at least makes words inflect in some manner
resembling regularity. I've created my own fully regular (one symbol
is one and only one sound) English spelling system (and it is rich in
vowels and consonants with diacriticals), and under that it turns out
that word inflection is often quite more complex than it is in today's
written English. Maybe I just used to spend way too much time in the
Usenet newsgroup sci.lang. ;-)
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