De-Inflection Software?
Richard A. Stauch
rstauch at charter.net
Fri Sep 20 18:30:13 EDT 2002
Hi all,
I wonder if anyone has ever seen software written to take a word in
Greek and examine it for its constituent parts, prefix-stem-suffix? Is
there any such software written? I don't remember ever seeing anything
like that, but I might not be looking in the right places.
I think it might be relatively easy to write such software. It would be
a matter of determining what tables to include and how to modify words
given to find the possibilities. Debugging might take a lot of time,
though.
Would there be much of a market for such software? It could go both
ways, and allow one to enter a stem, for which it would produce an
inflection table, or one could enter a word found in a certain text and
it would tell you the part of speech, its inflectional form, and other
facts (like, if it is a verb form of a noun, a compound word, and all
that).
I can imagine such software for other languages, too. It could use the
same basic engine, but with different rules, tables and fonts.
Frankly, I am tired of looking up words, not knowing if I have an adverb
or verb in hand, wasting time finding out it's not at all what I thought
it was. Of course, by the time I would be through writing such software,
I wouldn't have that problem any more. ;)
Thanks in advance,
Richard Allan Stauch
Long Beach, CA
http://www.rstauch.com
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