Yes, we have had it for a long time; no, nobody has solved it
entirely; and yes, this approach is wrong. Breaking a string into
words may require a thorough understanding of the vocabulary and
grammar of the language, and even that may not be enough.
But how can we then ever have a
If you are willing to give up precision, then you can use heuristics.
The grossest heuristics are not really word breaking at all, but
give users that do not know the language a compatible way of working
with the text. For example, some software have extended their western
European language
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Mike Lischke wrote:
If you are willing to give up precision, then you can use heuristics.
It's ugly but perhaps ok for a simple editor. You can improve the
precision
with better heuristics and more data, so you get to decide how much is
good enough...
So using
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Thomas Chan wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Mike Lischke wrote:
If you are willing to give up precision, then you can use heuristics.
It's ugly but perhaps ok for a simple editor. You can improve the
precision
with better heuristics and more data, so you get to
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