Yes, I think it's the same thing - word segmentation - http://www.google.com/search?q=word+segmentation
You may get the same ad(word) as I did - Basistech folks from Cambridge, MA have various interesting products, some stuff that deals with CJK (not sure if they actually do word segmentation or just n-gram the input). Guess who their biggest customer is? Hint: starts with the letter G. Otis ----- Original Message ---- From: Marvin Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 11:14:49 AM Subject: Re: Analysis/tokenization of compound words On Sep 20, 2006, at 12:07 AM, Daniel Naber wrote: > Writing a decomposer is difficult as you need both a large dictionary > *without* compounds and a set of rules to avoid splitting at too many > positions. Conceptually, how different is the problem of decompounding German from tokenizing languages such as Thai and Japanese, where "words" are not separated by spaces and may consist of multiple characters? Marvin Humphrey Rectangular Research http://www.rectangular.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]