On Apr 12, 2012, at 9:00 AM, Paul Libbrecht wrote:
> More or less, Fahrrad is generally abbreviated as Rad.
> (even though Rad can mean wheel and bike)
A synonym could handle this, since "farhren" would not be a good match. It is
judgement call, but this seems more like an equivalence "Fahrrad =
On Thursday 12 April 2012 18:00:14 Paul Libbrecht wrote:
> Le 12 avr. 2012 à 17:46, Michael Ludwig a écrit :
> >> Some compounds probably should not be decompounded, like "Fahrrad"
> >> (farhren/Rad). With a dictionary-based stemmer, you might decide to
> >> avoid decompounding for words in the dic
On Apr 12, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Michael Ludwig wrote:
> I remember from my linguistics studies that the terminus technicus for
> these is "Fugenmorphem" (interstitial or joint morpheme).
That is some excellent linguistic jargon. I'll file that with "hapax legomenon".
If you don't highlight, you ca
Le 12 avr. 2012 à 17:46, Michael Ludwig a écrit :
>> Some compounds probably should not be decompounded, like "Fahrrad"
>> (farhren/Rad). With a dictionary-based stemmer, you might decide to
>> avoid decompounding for words in the dictionary.
>
> Good point.
More or less, Fahrrad is generally ab
