Hi all,

> I usually encode all relevant data when building a bilingual dictionary,
> to make later reuse easier. For example, in the Breton--French
> dictionary, I put POS + gender on both sides even if the gender doesn't
> change, because that way it makes reuse of the data easier (it means you
> don't have to look up (possibly ambiguous) lemmas in the morphology.

I do not see how not encoding the morphological information that does 
not change makes the data less reusable. All the "relevant" information 
is there and the "irrelevant" one can be easily added.

> In any case I think it is probably not a good idea to assume that the
> bilingual dictionary only encodes "different" information. If there is
> another way to find it out, it would be better.

Not encoding the morphological information that does not change makes it 
possible to automatically infer structural transfer rules with 
apertium-transfer-tools. This tool is around for more than 4 years.

I think it is not a good idea to change the way we do things. When we 
designed Apertium we took the decision of not encoding the morphological 
information that does not change in the bilingual dictinary and I think 
that we should stand to what we decided at that moment if there is not a 
"good" reason for the change and "reusability" is not (see above).

Cheers
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Felipe


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